# HG changeset patch
# User meillo@marmaro.de
# Date 1231182680 -3600
# Node ID f88853595b7ab755b4a180fc4170f2992b5b3d10
# Parent  ab9b90152ca45e81c4b38cd5bdde3579e1822ba2
reworked section about qmail

diff -r ab9b90152ca4 -r f88853595b7a thesis/bib/websites.bib
--- a/thesis/bib/websites.bib	Mon Jan 05 19:50:29 2009 +0100
+++ b/thesis/bib/websites.bib	Mon Jan 05 20:11:20 2009 +0100
@@ -215,3 +215,10 @@
 	howpublished = "On the Internet: {\small\url{http://hashcash.org} (2009-01-04)}",
 }
 
+
+@misc{netqmail:homepage,
+	author = "Russell Nelson",
+	title = "\emph{Homepage of netqmail}",
+	howpublished = "On the Internet: {\small\url{http://www.qmail.org/netqmail} (2009-01-05)}",
+}
+
diff -r ab9b90152ca4 -r f88853595b7a thesis/tex/3-MailTransferAgents.tex
--- a/thesis/tex/3-MailTransferAgents.tex	Mon Jan 05 19:50:29 2009 +0100
+++ b/thesis/tex/3-MailTransferAgents.tex	Mon Jan 05 20:11:20 2009 +0100
@@ -133,12 +133,13 @@
 \label{sec:qmail}
 \qmail\ is seen by its community as ``a modern SMTP server which makes sendmail obsolete'' \citeweb{qmail:homepage2}. It was written by Daniel~J.\ \person{Bernstein} starting in 1995. His primary goal was to create a secure \MTA\ to replace the popular, but vulnerable, \sendmail. %fixme: ref
 
-\qmail\ first introduced many innovative concepts in \mta\ design and is generally seen as the first security-aware \MTA\ developed. %fixme:ref
-%fixme: what about mmdf?
+\qmail\ first introduced many innovative concepts in \mta\ design. The most obvious contrast to \sendmail\ and \exim\ is its modular design. But \qmail\ was not the first modular \MTA. \NAME{MMDF}, which predates even \sendmail, was modular too. Regardless of \NAME{MMDF}'s modular architecture, \qmail\ is generally seen as the first security-aware \MTA. %fixme:ref
 
-Since November 2007, \qmail\ is released in the \name{public domain} which makes it \freesw. The latest release is 1.03 from July 1998.
+The latest release of \qmail\ is versoin 1.03 from July 1998. In November 2007, afterwards, \qmail's source was put into the \name{public domain}. This makes it Free Software.
 
-The programs homepages are \citeweb{qmail:homepage1} and \citeweb{qmail:homepage2}. Further information about \qmail\ is available with Dave \person{Sill}'s ``Life with qmail'' \cite{lifewithqmail}.
+Because of \person{Bernstein}'s inactivity though changing requirements since 1998, ``[a] motley krewe of qmail contributors (see the README) has put together a netqmail-1.06 distribution of qmail. It is derived from Daniel Bernstein's qmail-1.03 plus bug fixes, a few feature enhancements, and some documentation.'' \citeweb{netqmail:homepage}.
+
+\qmail's homepages are \citeweb{qmail:homepage1} and \citeweb{qmail:homepage2}. The best book about \qmail, from \person{Bernstein}'s view, is Dave \person{Sill}'s handbook \cite{sill02}. His free available guide ``Life with qmail'' is another valuable source \cite{lifewithqmail}.