Re: RFCs?

2001-04-15 Thread D. J. Bernstein
David Benfell writes: I keep hearing rumblings about how Dan plays fast and loose with the RFCs in qmail and his other programs. Mud-slinging 101: Claim that the program won't work for most people. Claim that it's a research prototype not meant for serious use. Claim that nobody uses

Re: RFCs?

2001-04-15 Thread Russ Allbery
David Benfell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So, I give up. I'm guessing other MTA's have at least as many real, documented issues with RFC compliance as qmail. And I only see a couple things that might be important. Am I wrong? What's the deal? There are some RFCs that Dan has chosen

Re: RFCs?

2001-04-15 Thread Andy Bradford
Thus said "D. J. Bernstein" on 15 Apr 2001 19:31:35 -: See http://cr.yp.to/qmail/warfield.html. Wow, I've never seen a more clueless sysadmin.[1] It's apparent that he doesn't understand what the problem was and decided to make qmail the scapegoat. What's sad is that there are people out

Re: RFCs?

2001-04-13 Thread Peter van Dijk
never done that). There are some interesting notes at http://vader.kootenay.net/qmail/misc/THOUGHTS.html The stuff that's clearly identified as having to do with RFCs looks like it's okay. But I don't know enough about the RFCs to see if anything else there is related. That is actually straight from the

RFCs?

2001-04-12 Thread David Benfell
Hello all, Damn. This is going to sound like a troll. And I don't know how to avoid that short of not asking the question. I keep hearing rumblings about how Dan plays fast and loose with the RFCs in qmail and his other programs. All I know is I'm a happy qmail (and djbdns and publicfile

Re: RFCs?

2001-04-12 Thread Brian Reichert
On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 11:44:10AM -0700, David Benfell wrote: Hello all, Damn. This is going to sound like a troll. And I don't know how to avoid that short of not asking the question. I keep hearing rumblings about how Dan plays fast and loose with the RFCs in qmail and his other

Re: RFCs?

2001-04-12 Thread Dave Sill
Brian Reichert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 11:44:10AM -0700, David Benfell wrote: I keep hearing rumblings about how Dan plays fast and loose with the RFCs in qmail and his other programs. All I know is I'm a happy qmail (and djbdns and publicfile and ezmlm+idx) user

Which RFCs?

1999-05-21 Thread Stephen Anderson
I'm having a hard time finding out which RFCs document various protocols. I was hoping someone could point me where to look to find the applicable RFCs for: SMTP, POP3, LDAP, HTML, and MIME. If anyone could help me out, I'd appreciate it!

Re: Which RFCs?

1999-05-21 Thread Harald Hanche-Olsen
+ Stephen Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: | I'm having a hard time finding out which RFCs document various protocols. | I was hoping someone could point me where to look to find the applicable | RFCs for: | | SMTP, POP3, LDAP, HTML, and MIME. | | If anyone could help me out, I'd appreciate