Mailing list active?
Louis Bertrand
Thanks
--Louis
Louis Bertrand, Bowmanville, ON, Canada
<lo...@signalpath.on.ca>
OpenBSD: Security matters <www.OpenBSD.org>
Dan Wilder
Apparently not very active. Or maybe I've been bouncing it,
due to one or another misconfiguration or experiment of my own.
Are there any faithful still out there?
I'm still using smail3, having generated a number of patches to
3.2.0.104 to get it to compile and actually deliver mail in my
environment (submitted to the smail3 bug list) ... really, it is
a great mailer. I'll probably stick with it for our mail hub,
and I've recently brought the same version up at a third party
site.
Though I am experimenting with postfix, previously called
Vmailer.
Have encountered a few annoying differences that make postfix
a not-quite-drop-in replacement for sendmail. The .forward
files, for example, don't do quite what you might expect with
lines like
user
which aren't guaranteed at all to give you local delivery,
even when "user" is indeed a local user, and there are no
/etc/aliases entries, etc, to redirect mail to "user".
Postfix to a small extent emulates sendmail's predisposition
for header rewriting, though the most obnoxious of this is
off by default. Apparently there's a bunch more header
rewriting in the works.
There's no "rsmtp" capability. Though it does handle
traditional rmail-type uucp nicely. There aren't as many
delivery options as Smail offers, though. Again, there
apparently are some of these in the works.
Configuration is, if anything, simpler than Smail, though partly
because there are fewer options. I feel that postfix is at
this point less well documented than Smail.
There's an interesting war going on between qmail and postfix
people on the postfix mailing list. The shots are mostly being
fired by qmail folks, including somebody who claims to be Dan
Bernstein, qmail author.
Just released for public beta 12/30/98, postfix is quite a bit more
mature than I'd expected, considering what a young package it
appears to be. Maybe the non-public beta has been going on for
quite a long time.
--
Dan Wilder <d...@gasboy.com>
Paul Francis
Paul Francis
craig harmer
} Subject: Re: Mailing list active?
} On Thu, Jan 14, 1999 at 09:42:15PM -0500, Louis Bertrand wrote:
} > Excuse this test posting, but is the mailing list active?
} >
} > Thanks
} > --Louis
} >
} > Louis Bertrand, Bowmanville, ON, Canada
} > <lo...@signalpath.on.ca>
} > OpenBSD: Security matters <www.OpenBSD.org>
} >
}
} Apparently not very active. Or maybe I've been bouncing it,
} due to one or another misconfiguration or experiment of my own.
}
} Are there any faithful still out there?
there hasn't been that much traffic lately. i certainly haven't
responded to anything in awhile.
i'm pretty committed to smail, though.
} I'm still using smail3, having generated a number of patches to
} 3.2.0.104 to get it to compile and actually deliver mail in my
} environment (submitted to the smail3 bug list) ... really, it is
} a great mailer. I'll probably stick with it for our mail hub,
} and I've recently brought the same version up at a third party
} site.
i'm pretty happy with smail. i've got a custom configuration setup,
though, which makes me reluctant to mess with other mailers.
} Though I am experimenting with postfix, previously called
} Vmailer.
the postfix discussion is deleted ...
cheers,
craig.
} --
} Dan Wilder <d...@gasboy.com>
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