Re: Replacing Postfix

[Alistair Crooks <agc%pkgsrc.org@localhost>]

On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 11:23:11PM +0200, Jukka Ruohonen wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 10:00:33PM +0100, Alistair Crooks wrote:
> > I also apologise for the "ping pong -style brainstorming", even if I
> > have absolutely NFI what you mean.  We used to have 2 MTAs in our
> > tree, and that has been reduced to 1, a correct decision IMO.  It's
> > not as if we have ever been too light on the MTA front.  Not sure
> > where the ping-pong is coming from here.
> 
> I mean we have projects for better support in existing software, and the
> next moment we are talking about removing the software.

SASL can be used for more than just postfix. And I'd also be interested
in securing small MTAs just as much as large ones.
 
> > it easily.  I don't see there are any parallels with groff/mdocml, but
> > maybe that's just me.
> 
> It was discussed that having PDF and Postscript support in mdocml would be
> needed, but now it seems that groff(1) will stay in the base.

I think that's outside the scope of this thread.

Regards,
Alistair