Victor Duchovni: > On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 10:41:30AM -0300, Marcio Merlone wrote: > > > Wietse Venema escreveu: > >> (...) > >> Apart from that, if they come up with a decent MTA then I welcome > >> some competition. More motivation for me to look into postfix-lite. > >> > > That would be great, I have some servers wich sends nothing but > > administrative mails to me, logcheck, crontab, such annoying things. They > > need nothing more than a bare bones MTA wich is able to send mails to a > > relay host. > > Postfix "lite" does not mean a stripped-down MTA. It means a cleaner > Postfix free of the weight of backwards-compatibility constraints, > and thus able to shed *some* baggage. I think this still means a > fully-featured MTA.
Fully-featured as far as RFCs are concerned, but not necessarily drop-in compatible with earlier Postfix configurations or file formats. Ideally this means eliminating thousands of lines of non-obvious code, either by removing the feature or workaround altogether, or by replacing it with code that is easier to maintain but not 100% compatible. This will be a slow process. Wietse