changeset 128:6f622eb5c812

some sentences about MTA comparison
author meillo@marmaro.de
date Tue, 09 Dec 2008 18:01:20 +0100 (2008-12-09)
parents af2008ba7a65
children 5a122d28f1ca
files thesis/tex/3-MailTransferAgents.tex
diffstat 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) [+]
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--- 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}