Please note that postfix does not undergo the rigorous code scrub
that sendmail goes through.
[...]
Will you please cut the crap? Thank you.
Unlike Sendmail, Postfix was written from scratch with security
in mind. It had only one published security flaw since its first
public release in 1998. The author, Wietse Venema, is also the
author of SATAN and tcpwrappers. He knew one or two things about
writing secure code long before OpenBSD came into existence. The
objections people occasionally have against Postfix are related to
its license, not the code quality.
Just to bad that this didn't happen in OpenBSD 2.9 when QMail was
removed as at the time, it may had a chance to be in the default install
with the numerous issues sendmail had back then. QMail is good and I
sure used it for years, but now I do prefer Postfix much more and it is
more with it's time now then QMail is.
Now if Postfix had a BSD license, I don't know if it might not be more
seriously consider, but my guess is it might not. Sendmail got much
better in the last 7 years. Still bulky and yes I still don't use it,
but it is not a bad mailer these days. I just prefer the configuration
simplicity of Qmail, Postfix and sendmail in the order with QMail the
easiest by far when you know none of them to start with. Plus for an
MTA, it is surprisingly small foot print.
Now if djbdns was under BSD license, I wonder if that didn't have a
bigger chance to make it into the base and replace bind...
But what I think is not relevant or important here, there is just a few
person that may decide that for sure and at large, we are none of them.
Seeing the GNU directory in the base getting smaller and have more and
more BSD in OpenBSD is nice to see however. Lets give pcc time to may be
make it in first and replace gcc for good over time.
Interesting time.
