[H-GEN] OpenSMTPD - interesting.

[Paul Gear]

On 05/02/2013 02:10 PM, Grant Byers wrote:
> ...
>
> > I saw OpenSMTPD mentioned in relation to the newest OpenBSD release 
> (I'm not a OpenBSD user, but I'm curious about OS development in 
> general). I found a presentation on the project page which I thought 
> may be of interest to some of the HUMBUG members who have not given 
> their soul and email to Google.
> >
> > http://www.opensmtpd.org/presentations/asiabsdcon2013-smtpd/#slide-8 
> (HTML/js based slides)
> >
>
> ...
>
> Still, I don't really see anything that sets this apart from other 
> MTAs like Postfix. IMO, Postfix was the mail server to kill all other 
> mail servers & I find it hard to fathom that many vendors insist on 
> shipping with send mail as default (although it certainly keeps the 
> old timers happy).
>

Amen to that.

> Anything developed by the OpenBSD guys does tend to be extremely well 
> documented (including code) and is generally easy to maintain and 
> extend though. That may set them apart.
>

Except OpenNTPd, which last i checked didn't even do you the courtesy of 
responding to ntpq, which makes it useless for anything non-trivial.

Regards,
Paul

-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: paul.vcf
Type: text/x-vcard
Size: 203 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://lists.humbug.org.au/pipermail/general/attachments/20130502/56e51193/attachment.vcf>