From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DvtD9-0006Jt-Bj for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 22 Jul 2005 08:48:51 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j6M8lgLK012075; Fri, 22 Jul 2005 08:47:42 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j6M8k6Ma025720 for ; Fri, 22 Jul 2005 08:46:06 GMT Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DvtAt-0003L1-Ft for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 22 Jul 2005 08:46:31 +0000 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1DvtAc-0007M5-Pv for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Fri, 22 Jul 2005 10:46:14 +0200 Received: from ip68-230-66-193.ph.ph.cox.net ([68.230.66.193]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 22 Jul 2005 10:46:14 +0200 Received: from 1i5t5.duncan by ip68-230-66-193.ph.ph.cox.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 22 Jul 2005 10:46:14 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: VPopmail - SUID vchkpw Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 01:45:43 -0700 Organization: Sometimes Message-ID: References: <200507200132.30745.lists@seattleserver.com> <20050720070457.GC11608@curie-int.orbis-terrarum.net> <200507202032.35624.vapier@gentoo.org> <200507210515.57488.lists@seattleserver.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip68-230-66-193.ph.ph.cox.net User-Agent: Pan/0.14.2.91 (As She Crawled Across the Table) Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: cf5af32d-4f74-4438-b89e-7b6074634b47 X-Archives-Hash: 3640436ab71c6e055b180af1f5cfcd85 Casey Allen Shobe posted <200507210515.57488.lists@seattleserver.com>, excerpted below, on Thu, 21 Jul 2005 05:15:57 +0000: > On Thursday 21 July 2005 00:32, Mike Frysinger wrote: >> how is that not common operation ? SMTP AUTH is a pretty critical >> feature imho > > It's not a supported on included part of qmail, which has not been > modified in a number of years. The functionality is provided only via > unofficial patches. > > I agree that it is pretty critical, however that is not the opinion of the > software author (or if it is, he hasn't chosen to integrate it with the > main distribution for whatever reason). Let's just say... QMail is from DJ Bernstein, which will answer the question for many right there. If you don't know the implications of that in terms of version of software available and how patches must be added, due to his license, and you are interested, look it up. I don't think we need the flame war that could ensue from a discussion thereof on this list. =8^| Resisting the temptation to say more... -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list