Re: QMail and DJB ... was Re: [LIH] any one using djbdns?

["Binand Raj S." <binand@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

omicron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx forced the electrons to say:
> 	A few lines in /var/qmail/controls/ ( is that the standard qmail path ?)files can easily change the way qmail works. It's *very* easy. I really dont
> know the sendmail.cf syntax, and may be in near future i'll make an effort to
> understand it. But @ the first glance, qmail wins.

DJB's licensing is such that /var/qmail/controls/ would remain a standard
path, I'd say. :-)

You don't have to know sendmail.cf's syntax - all you need to know are
how to add single lines to sendmail.mc for each need of yours, and how
to run m4. The .mc file format is very well explained in the README file
that comes with it.

> If u dont want procmail, but wanna use binmail, even that is
> supported. if u dont want that, and u need an Mailbox format, that is also 
> supported. if u want maildir, that is also supported. 

That is precisely the advantage of an external MDA. The MTA
needn't know about the host system's mail storage format. I am using
sendmail+procmail+Maildirs. I discarded the uw-imapd for the much more
stable courier imapd and solid pop3d, both natively supporting maildirs.

> i just dont get the idea
> of a "specialised program" when u have all the flexiblity that u need. And all
> the configurations are simply scripts. u dont need an external 'specialised' 
> program.

Well, I do need an external 'specialised' program to configure sendmail -
it is called vim - http://www.vim.org :-) 

As an aside, one of the newest features of sendmail is the milter API -
shipping with 8.11.0+. libmilter can be used to write specialised mail
filtering packages - to filter emails based on sender/recipient, mime
type, size and just about anything else. One of the FAQs of this list,
"How can I save a copy of all outgoing mails?"  can be easily achieved
via milter (after throwing the privacy rights of your users out of
the window).