> that is none other than Vmailer from Wietse Venema, which other than > having a truely scary name fit for a vampire, has something personal > against Dan Bernstein and Qmail. He's very active on BugTraq, and > seems to know what he's doing most of the time, but his attitude and > few errors I have seen him get caught in, pushed me away from trying > Vmailer.
for what it's worth i've been watching wietse and djb have it out on bugtraq (and other places) for quite a couple years. in general i think wietse has shown immense self control and reasonableness under fairly extreme attack. i've avoided using qmail because i think djb is *such* an unpleasant person to deal with (note: i've never dealt with him personally just watched him deal with other people on lists etc) and he is fairly widely recognised for being a little "overly opinionated", though no one doubts he technical abilities. as best as i have been able to tell the story is this. djb and wietse both did a lot of the initial coding on qmail and then had a falling out due to differing opinions on how unix security should be implemented. djb has now taken it to be is life long mission to publicly fault wietse for any and everything that can be. i've seen him publicly slammed for being a jerk almost everytime by nearly everyone. i really like what i've seen of wietse and vmailer/postfix and am very hopefull that it will mature into my replacement for sendmail (i especially like the queuing philosopy, it's great and fills a gaping hole in what sendmail provides). adam. ps. i make no claim to know the full story but the above is how i've interpreted what i've seen.