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changeset 265:6ed93483bba9

added section about masqmails position
author meillo@marmaro.de
date Wed, 14 Jan 2009 21:34:48 +0100
parents 691c08400988
children ea538a366b7d
files thesis/tex/3-MailTransferAgents.tex
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     1.5  Common to them is their focus on transferring email, while being able to act as \name{smart host}s. Their variety ranges from ones mostly restricted to mail transfer (e.g.\ \qmail) to others having interfaces for adding further mail processing modules (e.g.\ \postfix). This group covers everything in between the other two groups.
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     1.7 -``Real \MTA{}s'' are of importance in this document. All programs selected for the comparison in the following section are ``real \MTA{}s''. \masqmail\ is one too.
     1.8 +``Real \MTA{}s'' include \sendmail, \exim, \qmail, and \postfix.
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    1.11  \subsubsection*{Other segmenting}
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    1.18 +\subsubsection*{\masqmail's position}
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    1.20 +Now, where does \masqmail\ fit in? It is not groupware nor a simple forwarder, thus it belongs to the ``real \MTA{}s''. Additionally it is Free Software and is intended to be sendmail-compatible. This makes it similar to \sendmail, \exim, \qmail, and \postfix. \masqmail\ is intended to be a replacement for those \MTA{}s.
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    1.22 +But: It was not designed to be used as a general replacement for them (see: section \ref{sec:masqmail-target-field}). In fact, \masqmail\ is only a replacement \emph{in some situations}. This primary excludes working in an untrusted environment.
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    1.33  \section{Popular MTAs}
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    1.35  This section introduces a selection of popular \MTA{}s; they are the most likely substitutes for \masqmail. All are \emph{sendmail-compatible} ``smart'' \freesw\ \MTA{}s that focus on mail transfer, as is \masqmail.
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    1.43  \section{Result}
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    1.45  %fixme: write a result here