# HG changeset patch # User meillo@marmaro.de # Date 1228842080 -3600 # Node ID 6f622eb5c812c046acc14b4b5e6e3ac5276caac8 # Parent af2008ba7a659ba62fc3db9a115fae0cf80b1f5c some sentences about MTA comparison diff -r af2008ba7a65 -r 6f622eb5c812 thesis/tex/3-MailTransferAgents.tex --- a/thesis/tex/3-MailTransferAgents.tex Tue Dec 09 18:00:54 2008 +0100 +++ b/thesis/tex/3-MailTransferAgents.tex Tue Dec 09 18:01:20 2008 +0100 @@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ 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 of \name{Sendmail, Inc.}. -Further development will go into the project \name{MeTA1} which succeeds \sendmail. +Further development will go into the project \name{MeTA1} (the former name was \name{sendmail X}) which succeeds \sendmail. More information can be found on the \sendmail\ homepage \citeweb{sendmail:homepage} and on \citeweb{wikipedia:sendmail} and \citeweb{jdebp}. @@ -139,17 +139,13 @@ \section{Comparison of MTAs} -This section tries not to provide an overall \MTA\ comparison, because this is already done by others: Including +This section tries not to provide an overall \MTA\ comparison, because this is already done by others. Remarkable are the one by Shearer \cite{shearer06} and an email discussion on the mailing list \name{plug@lists.q-linux.com} \citeweb{plug:mtas}. Tabulary overviews may be found at \citeweb{mailsoftware42} and \citeweb{wikipedia:comparison-of-mail-servers}. Hafiz \cite{hafiz05} discusses in detail on \mta\ architecture (comparing \sendmail, \name{qmail}, \name{postfix}, and \name{sendmail X}). -\url{http://shearer.org/MTA_Comparison} -\url{http://www.geocities.com/mailsoftware42/} -\url{http://fanf.livejournal.com/50917.html} -\url{http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/postfix/2006-07/1762.html} +Here provided is an overview on a selection of important properties, covering the four previously introduced programs. The data comes from the above stated sources and is collected in table \ref{tab:mta-comparison}. +\url{http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/postfix/2006-07/1762.html} %sloc evolution of postfix, sendmail, qmail -For a discussion on \mta\ architectures (comparing \sendmail, \name{qmail}, \name{postfix}, and \name{sendmail X}) it is refered to Hafiz \cite{hafiz05}. -Here provided is an overview on a selection of important properties, covering the four previously introduced programs. Table \ref{tab:mta-comparison} provides it. \begin{table}