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From: Derek Fawcus <dfawcus+lists-tuhs@employees.org>
To: TUHS main list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] off-topic list
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2018 09:57:56 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180626085756.GA96296@accordion.employees.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAC20D2OQcoURrODRr6VfsKyYmg-__G2seTsuLedss+WL5m-ySg@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 05:15:00PM -0400, Clem Cole wrote:
> > Wait, are you saying that qmail was written as a replacement for PMDF? Or
> > that you used qmail as your replacement for PMDF?
> 
> Unclear - why Borstein does anything in my mind.

Bernstein.

> Best I can tell he wrote
> because he (and a lot of us) disliked sendmail.   I think he felt MMDF was
> too much of a mess by that point and it was time to start over.   He had
> already did a replacement for bind.  But it would have primarily been a

As I recall qmail came before djbdns.  I started using qmail in the 90s in
its pre 1.0 version because I wanted a SMTP MTA didn't want to use sendmail,
and had wasted too much time trying to get my head around MMDF.

qmail had the advantage of being small, simple, with easily understood
distinct parts,  and one could easily extend it - sort of in the tools
approach, by plugging bits in to its dataflow pipeline.

The code was a bit 'interesting', but not too awkward.

DF

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-06-26  9:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 87+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-06-25 16:10 Noel Chiappa
2018-06-25 17:37 ` Clem Cole
2018-06-25 19:35   ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2018-06-25 20:09     ` Clem Cole
2018-06-25 20:47       ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2018-06-25 21:15         ` Clem Cole
2018-06-26  7:01           ` arnold
2018-06-26  8:57           ` Derek Fawcus [this message]
2018-06-26 11:29         ` Tim Bradshaw
2018-06-26 13:09       ` Tony Finch
2018-06-26 18:04         ` Warner Losh
2018-06-26 21:16           ` Clem Cole
2018-06-27 21:33             ` Michael Parson
2018-06-27 22:27               ` Clem cole
2018-06-28  5:57                 ` arnold
2018-06-28 18:36                   ` Michael Parson
2018-06-26 15:57       ` Michael Kjörling
2018-06-26 21:09         ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2018-06-26 21:18           ` Clem Cole
2018-06-26 23:45             ` George Michaelson
2018-06-25 20:15     ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2018-06-26  8:27       ` Tony Finch
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2018-06-25 14:44 Noel Chiappa
2018-06-25 15:44 ` Clem Cole
2018-06-25 16:03   ` Paul Winalski
2018-06-25 17:22     ` Clem Cole
2018-06-24 13:14 Noel Chiappa
2018-06-25  1:38 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-06-25  1:46   ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2018-06-25 16:44     ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2018-06-25 12:45 ` Tony Finch
2018-06-25 16:41 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2018-06-24  3:08 Norman Wilson
2018-06-22 22:23 Doug McIlroy
2018-06-22 23:20 ` John P. Linderman
2018-06-23  0:22 ` Warren Toomey
2018-06-22  2:21 Noel Chiappa
2018-06-21 22:44 [TUHS] core Nelson H. F. Beebe
2018-06-21 23:07 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2018-06-21 23:47   ` [TUHS] off-topic list Warren Toomey
2018-06-22  1:11     ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2018-06-22  3:53     ` Robert Brockway
2018-06-22  4:18     ` Dave Horsfall
2018-06-22 11:44       ` Arthur Krewat
2018-06-22 14:28       ` Larry McVoy
2018-06-22 14:46         ` Tim Bradshaw
2018-06-22 14:54           ` Larry McVoy
2018-06-22 15:17             ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2018-06-22 17:27               ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2018-06-22 19:25                 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2018-06-22 21:04                   ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2018-06-23 14:49                     ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2018-06-23 15:25                       ` Toby Thain
2018-06-23 18:49                       ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2018-06-23 21:05                         ` Tom Ivar Helbekkmo via TUHS
2018-06-23 21:21                         ` Michael Parson
2018-06-23 23:31                           ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2018-06-23 23:36                             ` Larry McVoy
2018-06-23 23:37                               ` Larry McVoy
2018-06-24  0:20                                 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2018-06-25  2:53                           ` Dave Horsfall
2018-06-25  5:40                             ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2018-06-25  6:15                             ` arnold
2018-06-25  7:27                               ` Bakul Shah
2018-06-25 12:52                               ` Michael Parson
2018-06-25 13:41                                 ` arnold
2018-06-25 13:56                                   ` arnold
2018-06-25 13:59                               ` Adam Sampson
2018-06-25 15:05                               ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2018-06-26  9:05                               ` Derek Fawcus
2018-06-23 22:38                         ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2018-06-24  0:18                           ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2018-06-24 10:04                             ` Michael Kjörling
2018-06-25 16:10                               ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2018-06-25 18:48                                 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2018-06-25 14:18                             ` Clem Cole
2018-06-25 15:51                             ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2018-06-25 18:21                               ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2018-06-26 20:38                                 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2018-06-22 16:07             ` Tim Bradshaw
2018-06-22 16:36               ` Steve Johnson
2018-06-22 20:55               ` Bakul Shah
2018-06-22 14:52         ` Ralph Corderoy
2018-06-22 15:13           ` SPC
2018-06-22 16:45           ` Larry McVoy
2018-06-22 15:28         ` Clem Cole
2018-06-22 17:17         ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2018-06-22 18:00         ` Dan Cross
2018-06-22 17:29       ` Cág

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