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work in MTA comparison
author | meillo@marmaro.de |
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date | Tue, 20 Jan 2009 21:55:22 +0100 |
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--- a/thesis/tex/3-MailTransferAgents.tex Tue Jan 20 20:35:24 2009 +0100 +++ b/thesis/tex/3-MailTransferAgents.tex Tue Jan 20 21:55:22 2009 +0100 @@ -130,7 +130,10 @@ \sendmail\ designed to transfer mails between different protocols and networks, this lead to a very flexible, though complex, configuration. -It was first released with \NAME{BSD} 4.1c in 1983. The latest version is 8.14.3 from May 2008. The program is distributed under the \name{Sendmail License} as both, \freesw\ and proprietary software. +It was first released with \NAME{BSD} 4.1c in 1983. +%todo: write about its importance and about sendmail-compat + +The latest version is 8.14.3 from May 2008. The program is distributed under the \name{Sendmail License} as both, \freesw\ and proprietary software. Further development will go into the project \name{MeTA1} (the former name was \name{sendmail X}) which succeeds \sendmail. @@ -170,7 +173,7 @@ Today \postfix\ is taken by many \unix\ systems and \gnulinux\ distributions as default \MTA. -The latest stable version is numbered 2.5.5 from August 2008. \postfix\ is covered by the \name{IBM Public License 1.0} which is a \freesw\ license. +The latest stable version is numbered 2.5.6 from December 2008. \postfix\ is covered by the \name{IBM Public License 1.0} which is a \freesw\ license. Additional information can be retrieved from the program's homepage \citeweb{postfix:homepage}. \person{Dent}'s \postfix\ book \cite{dent04} claims to be ``the definitive guide'', and it is. @@ -182,16 +185,16 @@ \section{Comparison of MTAs} \label{sec:mta-comparison} -This section does not try to provide an overall \MTA\ comparison, because this is already done by others. Remarkable comparisons are the one by \person{Dan Shearer} \cite{shearer06} and a discussion on the mailing list \name{plug@lists.q-linux.com} \cite{plug:mtas}. Tabular overviews may be found at \citeweb{mailsoftware42}, \citeweb{wikipedia:comparison-of-mail-servers}, and \cite[section 1.9]{lifewithqmail}. +This section does not try to provide a throughout \MTA\ comparison, because this is already done by others. Remarkable comparisons are the one by \person{Dan Shearer} \cite{shearer06} and a discussion on the mailing list \name{plug@lists.q-linux.com} \cite{plug:mtas}. Tabular overviews may be found at \citeweb{mailsoftware42}, \citeweb{wikipedia:comparison-of-mail-servers}, and \cite[section 1.9]{lifewithqmail}. -Here provided is an overview on important properties of the four previously introduced \MTA{}s. The data comes from the above stated sources and is collected in table \ref{tab:mta-comparison}. +Here provided is an overview important properties of the four previously introduced \MTA{}s. The data comes from the above stated sources and is collected in table \ref{tab:mta-comparison}\footnote{The lines of code were messured with \person{David~A.\ Wheeler}'s \name{sloccount} \citeweb{sloccount}.}. \begin{table} % FIXME: improve table data!!! \begin{center} \input{tbl/mta-comparison.tbl} \end{center} - \caption{Comparison of MTAs} + \caption{Comparison of \MTA{}s} \label{tab:mta-comparison} \end{table}