[OpenIndiana-discuss] Qmail-to-go on openindiana?

[Christopher Chan]

On Monday, April 23, 2012 08:44 PM, låzaro wrote:
> in Qmail, the security is patch-maked in postfix is by-design-maked
>    

NO, that is not accurate. "security" where it means anti-spam, DJB did 
not bother because as far as he is concerned, the way things are, things 
are just broken. Too bad his idea of how email should work never took 
off. So any anti-spam features are provided by THIRD-PARTIES. It is not 
'patch-maked'. There is zero anti-spam.

As for postfix, 'by-design-maked' just means Wietse put in the time to 
develop postfix unlike DJB who stopped in 1998.

> for example, smtp auth, SASL, TLS and soon. Also postfix is more
> modular. You can use it with someSQL LDAP and all thats cute things.
>    

There is a qmail fork that does both sql and ldap too. postfix is only 
better because its developer continued to work on the code and keep up 
with the times and he built a good reputation while at it.

No qmail fork has ever managed that because of DJB's stand on licensing 
but now that qmail is public domain, maybe in the future one of these 
forks might.