On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 08:47:14AM -0400, Dale E Martin wrote: > > It doesnt at all.... Not to ellaborate, but the subject says it > > all...even then. I hate exim too. > > Has it been covered before on this list? I for one would be interested in > elaboration, if there is something technically inferior about exim or > postfix to qmail or sendmail? Or politically, I suppose, since much of > people's dislike about qmail has more to due with "political" than > technical reasons.
there are technical and "political" reasons to avoid qmail. the political reasons have been discussed many times on many lists, so i'll ignore them here. like all of djb's software, qmail has extremely weird configuration. not difficult to learn, just a PITA and completely unlike any other unix tools, and completely unlike anything else on your system - djb (wrongly) believes that it is far more important for his programs to be consistent with each other no matter what system they're running on than it is for them to be consistent with everything else on the system. amongst many other problems (including the unneccessary bizarre re-invention of existing tools that work perfectly well) he makes extensive use of "magic" file and directory names, mere existence of a file can trigger events and radically change the behaviour of a program. this is so fucked up that it's hard to believe he thinks it's a good idea (but he does!). craig -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]