Re: [djb@koobera.math.uic.edu: qmail 1.00 available]

[Amitai Schlair <schmonz@schmonz.com>]

On Feb 22, 2007, at 8:00 AM, Sasa Ugrenovic wrote:

> Is qmail usable ? I used qmail for 5 years before I switched to  
> postfix.
> I hope DJB reads this, because qmail is obsolete... you have to  
> apply a million patches (which have backward compatibility issues)  
> to have a decent functional SMTP.
> Greylisting, helo checks, blabla ..
I'm going to read this charitably and assume your first question was  
intended rhetorically.
Obviously, for you, for some definition of "usable", qmail isn't. Why  
not? Well, that's a combination of what qmail does and doesn't do +  
what various patches can do + what you're willing to do. Also  
obviously, for some other definition of "usable", qmail is, as you do  
use it in some contexts.
Maybe it seems like too much work to keep installing qmail with the  
changes you want. If so, I submit that you're working too hard. Take  
a few minutes and automate the process, and it stops being a problem.