Re: qmail? (was:Re: sendmail vs smail)

1997-07-20 Thread Dima
>>Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: >A related question: is there any chance of getting a Debianized >distribution of qmail in the near future? A mere source could do. You can use a non-debianized version: the only difference is that Debian already have qmail users and groups in /etc/passwd & /etc/

qmail? (was:Re: sendmail vs smail)

1997-07-20 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
A related question: is there any chance of getting a Debianized distribution of qmail in the near future? A mere source could do. Yes, I know that there is qmail in project/experimental (at least my mirror has it), but I'd rather not use alpha software -- and I think I would be violating Dan's copy

Re: sendmail vs smail

1997-07-18 Thread Randy Edwards
On Sat, 19 Jul 1997, jr wrote: > why Debian recomend install smail and not sendmail? I think it's primarily because smail is so much easier to configure. I originally set up smail and found it quite easy to deal with. Just this week, however, I had to install sendmail to get a particular app

Re: sendmail vs smail

1997-07-18 Thread George Bonser
sendmail has a different security hole every week, smail has not. Smail works EASILLY with UUCP, sendmail is more difficult, particularly when you are trying to manage routing in a large network. For the vast majority of cases, smail is much MUCH easier to configure and a lot easier to follow fr

sendmail vs smail

1997-07-18 Thread jr
why Debian recomend install smail and not sendmail? bye -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .