docs/diploma

changeset 60:fe68825fee28

added new references; wrote introductions about sendmail and qmail
author meillo@marmaro.de
date Sat, 18 Oct 2008 12:07:28 +0200
parents f74b56be6275
children 1b57ddb2736f
files thesis/bib/websites.bib thesis/tex/1-Candidates.tex
diffstat 2 files changed, 57 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) [+]
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     1.1 --- a/thesis/bib/websites.bib	Sat Oct 18 10:59:06 2008 +0200
     1.2 +++ b/thesis/bib/websites.bib	Sat Oct 18 12:07:28 2008 +0200
     1.3 @@ -4,12 +4,42 @@
     1.4  	howpublished = "On the Internet: {\small\url{http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mail_transfer_agent&oldid=238542929} (2008-10-15)}",
     1.5  }
     1.6  
     1.7 +@misc{sendmail:homepage,
     1.8 +	author = "The Sendmail Consortium",
     1.9 +	title = "\emph{Homepage of sendmail}",
    1.10 +	howpublished = "On the Internet: {\small\url{http://www.sendmail.org} (2008-10-18)}",
    1.11 +}
    1.12 +
    1.13 +@misc{qmail:homepage1,
    1.14 +	author = "Daniel J. Bernstein",
    1.15 +	title = "\emph{Homepage of qmail}",
    1.16 +	howpublished = "On the Internet: {\small\url{http://cr.yp.to/qmail.html} (2008-10-18)}",
    1.17 +}
    1.18 +
    1.19 +@misc{qmail:homepage2,
    1.20 +	author = "Russell Nelson",
    1.21 +	title = "\emph{Homepage of qmail}",
    1.22 +	howpublished = "On the Internet: {\small\url{http://www.qmail.org} (2008-10-18)}",
    1.23 +}
    1.24 +
    1.25 +@misc{lifewithqmail,
    1.26 +	author = "Dave Sill",
    1.27 +	title = "\emph{Life with qmail}",
    1.28 +	howpublished = "On the Internet: {\small\url{http://lifewithqmail.org} (2008-10-18)}",
    1.29 +}
    1.30 +
    1.31  @misc{wikipedia:sendmail,
    1.32  	author = "Wikipedia",
    1.33  	title = "\emph{Sendmail}",
    1.34  	howpublished = "On the Internet: {\small\url{http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sendmail&oldid=244710433} (2008-10-15)}",
    1.35  }
    1.36  
    1.37 +@misc{wikipedia:qmail,
    1.38 +	author = "Wikipedia",
    1.39 +	title = "\emph{qmail}",
    1.40 +	howpublished = "On the Internet: {\small\url{http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Qmail&oldid=241013610} (2008-10-18)}",
    1.41 +}
    1.42 +
    1.43  @misc{jdebp,
    1.44  	author = "Jonathan de Boyne Pollard",
    1.45  	title = "\emph{Unix Mail Transport Systems reviewed by JdeBP}",
     2.1 --- a/thesis/tex/1-Candidates.tex	Sat Oct 18 10:59:06 2008 +0200
     2.2 +++ b/thesis/tex/1-Candidates.tex	Sat Oct 18 12:07:28 2008 +0200
     2.3 @@ -58,14 +58,35 @@
     2.4  Here follows a small introduction to each of the five.
     2.5  
     2.6  \subsection{\sendmail}
     2.7 -%TODO: author, date of first release, basic intention of program, ...
     2.8 -%TODO: references to various descriptions
     2.9 -%\citeweb{homepage:sendmail},
    2.10 -\citeweb{wikipedia:sendmail}, \citeweb{jdebp}
    2.11 +\sendmail\ is the most popular \mta.
    2.12 +Since it was one of the first \MTA{}s and was shipped by many vendors of \unix\ systems.
    2.13 +
    2.14 +The program was written by Eric Allman as the successor of his program \name{delivermail}.
    2.15 +\sendmail\ was first released with \NAME{BSD} 4.1c in 1983.
    2.16 +Allman was not the only one working on the program.
    2.17 +Other people developed own versions of it and a variety of flavors came up, especially in the late eighties when Allman was inactive.
    2.18 +
    2.19 +\sendmail\ is focused on transfering mails between different protocols and networks, this lead to a very flexible (though complex) configuration.
    2.20 +
    2.21 +The latest version is 8.14.3 from May 2008.
    2.22 +Further development will go into the project \name{MeTA1} which succeeds \sendmail.
    2.23 +
    2.24 +More information can be found on the \sendmail\ homepage \citeweb{sendmail:homepage} and on \citeweb{wikipedia:sendmail} and \citeweb{jdebp}.
    2.25 +%FIXME: license
    2.26 +
    2.27  
    2.28  \subsection{\name{qmail}}
    2.29 -%TODO: author, date of first release, basic intention of program, ...
    2.30 -%TODO: references to various descriptions
    2.31 +\name{qmail} is seen by its community as ``a modern SMTP server which makes sendmail obsolete''.
    2.32 +It was written by Daniel~J.\ Bernstein starting in 1995.
    2.33 +His primary goal was to create a secure \MTA\ to replace the popular, but vulnerable, \sendmail.
    2.34 +
    2.35 +\name{qmail} first introduced may innovative concepts in \mta\ design and is generally seen as the first security-aware \MTA\ developed.
    2.36 +
    2.37 +Since November 2007, \name{qmail} is released in the \name{public domain} which makes it \freesw.
    2.38 +The latest release is 1.03 from July 1998.
    2.39 +
    2.40 +The programs homepages are \citeweb{qmail:homepage1} and \citeweb{qmail:homepage2}. Further information about \name{qmail} is available on \citeweb{lifewithqmail}, \citeweb{wikipedia:qmail} and \citeweb{jdebp}.
    2.41 +
    2.42  
    2.43  \subsection{\name{postfix}}
    2.44  %TODO: author, date of first release, basic intention of program, ...