Actually the mail administrator MAY be a non-programmer. (in fact where
I work, our postmaster is a tech / system maint person).
And I bet that this is more the norm, than an exception.
Matt
> -Original Message-
> From: Mate Wierdl [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, August 20, 1
On Fri, Aug 20, 1999 at 11:25:57AM -0500, Mate Wierdl wrote:
: If you want, I can extract the patches from the src rpm for you.
I didn't see an SRPM anywhere...if I had I would have extracted it on my
Linux box, but I sure appreciate it :)
: What you wrote about patches and nonprogrammers was ex
James Smallacombe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>For sure. In the past 3+ years I've been running qmail, Sendmail's gotten
>a whole lot better, both from a security standpoint, and an ease of
>configuration standpoint.
1) Lack of reported vulnerabilities <> more secure.
2) Sendmail's performance
Dave Sill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes on 20 August 1999 at 15:51:59 -0400
> James Smallacombe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >For sure. In the past 3+ years I've been running qmail, Sendmail's gotten
> >a whole lot better, both from a security standpoint, and an ease of
> >configuration sta
> From: Dave Sill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 15:51:59 -0400 (EDT)
>
> 2) Sendmail's performance still lags far behind current-generation
>MTA's.
...and will continue to as long as it runs that stupid rule based system to
rewrite addresses that don't need to be rewritten.
James Smallacombe writes:
> For sure. In the past 3+ years I've been running qmail, Sendmail's gotten
> a whole lot better, both from a security standpoint, and an ease of
> configuration standpoint. If qmail is going to remain a desirable
> alternative, it has to move forward as well. DJB'
On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Mate Wierdl wrote:
> What you wrote about patches and nonprogrammers was exactly my point;
> for nonprogrammers (and I assume many mail administrators may not be),
> it is hard to figure out which patches they need to get for what they
> want. www.qmail.org is a great help,
