docs/diploma
changeset 60:fe68825fee28
added new references; wrote introductions about sendmail and qmail
author | meillo@marmaro.de |
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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, ...