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Installation instructions for qmail
Authored by: voldenuit on Oct 03, '03 03:57:20PM

oreillynet just started a series of articles on just that; qmail with lots of features on OS X:

http://linux.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2003/09/25/advanced_mail_server.html

It is really a pity that the extremely talented djb also has, well, an attitude. People sueing the US of A on crypto-issues ( http://cr.yp.to/export/status.html ) can't be entirely bad. However, probably to keep his brilliant code clean from the patching hands of the unwashed masses, he invented his own "nearly" Free Software license.

If qmail and friends lived with a real Free Software license, there might be a little bit less magic in the code, but you would not be stuck with a release several years old and a wild collection of incompatible patches...

From a "religious" point of view, there are striking similarities in the worlds Apple and djb live in:

- both have arguably better technical solutions that have a hard time to win out in the market for home-made reasons
- they tend to favor the "invented here" over slightly less brilliant solutions from elsewhere

However, while Apple is all about user interface tolerating a little bug here and there (10.2.8), djb is all about securely running code and the extremely terse information it comes with is probably one of the most genuine examples of unix geek-for-geeks documentation, fail to understand a sentence and be lost.

That said, it still is an extremely beautiful, bulletproof piece of software that has already done things for me other MTAs simply can't...



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