> Taj Khattra wrote:
> >
> > re: sendmail going commercial
> >
> > who cares - you've all switched to qmail (www.qmail.org) already
> > haven't you ? :^)
>
> which is not commercial but has some uncomfortable restrictions in
> its license, similar to QT.
Another choice is Exim (www.exim.org). It's GPLed.
> Although the future releases of sendmail may be distributed
> only for $$$, the previous releases were free with source code
> (otherwise they would not have been included with Linux and
> BSD and other Unix flavours!) and anyone can maintain a
> separate tree independent from any commercial distribution,
> probably under a different name. No big deal.
>
> What about smail? Anyone is using it?
I'd recommend exim over smail. It's *very* similar to smail but better.
We're still running smail on our UUCP machines. I would have thrown
it out ages ago in favour of exim except that exim doesn't do UUCP
nicely and I don't really want to break a working system.
We won't run sendmail because of its security-hole-of-the-week
phenomenon. Why would people pay money for it?
-- Toomas Losin ParaLynx Internet tlo@paralynx.com New Westminster, BC