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 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HOfke-000716-At for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 06 Mar 2007 19:55:12 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l26JrarH006555; Tue, 6 Mar 2007 19:53:36 GMT Received: from nms01.sfo.emvem.net (nms01.sfo.emvem.net [69.59.145.101]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l26JnASE001685 for ; Tue, 6 Mar 2007 19:49:11 GMT Received: from [10.23.0.116] (unknown [74.93.11.97]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by nms01.sfo.emvem.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09C251000B for ; Tue, 6 Mar 2007 11:49:10 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <45EDC5B3.1000805@badapple.net> Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2007 11:49:07 -0800 From: kashani User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (Windows/20070221) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] QMAIL WERD PROBLEMS References: <45ED2AF4.2030306@gmail.com> <45EDB77D.3060507@badapple.net> <1173208773.16216.12.camel@blackwidow.nbk> In-Reply-To: <1173208773.16216.12.camel@blackwidow.nbk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 4c5e2dad-1c47-4ddc-a32b-d3a209dc03b3 X-Archives-Hash: 63aa9edcf397b974ea615a95c0bad471 Albert Hopkins wrote: > On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 10:48 -0800, kashani wrote: > >> I hate to be that guy, but why is anyone using an MTA that was last >> updated in May 1998? Use Postfix (or any other MTA under active >> development), it's simpler, easier, faster, and has more functionality >> without jumping through hoops. > > I could name a few: > > * Because I've been using for a long time and don't feel like > learning another MTA if i don't have to. > * I know it pretty well and I *trust* it. > * It does everything+ I need it to do. > * Is so secure that it hasn't needed an update since May 1998 ;). > > All those points (except the last, unfortunately) can pretty much be > applied to any piece of software I use (bash, python, vim, Gentoo...) But is it secure after adding the thirty odd patches needed to make qmail a modern MTA? However if you're familiar with it, then yeah stick with what you know though the change to Postfix at least was so painless I wondered why I didn't do it years earlier. For all you new users picking your first MTA: pick something else anything else besides qmail. :-) Please. kashani -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list