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| author | meillo@marmaro.de |
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| date | Sat, 17 Jan 2009 17:06:13 +0100 |
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| 1 on venema: ``there'll be no second postfix'': | |
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| 3 Yes there will be one, when postfix becomes obsolete, and this day will come as requirements change. See sendmail for example: it had nearly the whole market ... and now it's dying. sendmail once also thought it would be the number 1, forever. | |
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| 5 cf. Tanenbaum vs. Linux: It was too early. Linux' time has not ended, but it will some day. | |
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| 7 anyway, masqmail is not intended to become a second postfix. It's more inteded to become a second qmail, but with a differend target field. |