christos@zoulas.com (Christos Zoulas) writes:

> On Apr 17,  2:05pm, perry@piermont.com ("Perry E. Metzger") wrote:
> -- Subject: Re: CVS commit: src/gnu/usr.sbin/postfix
>
> | > So that 'postfix set-permissions' does not die?
> | 
> | That is not the correct way to fix the stated problem. We do not need
> | or want the qmqpd program. We can fix the problem directly instead.
>
> Why is it still distributed with postfix then? Why does the pkgsrc version
> of postfix install it? I would expect our postfix installation to be complete,
> even if we are not using parts of it.

(replying since Perry had to go to "classes")

The reason is that qmpqd implements the Quick Mail Queue Protocol
(from djb) and, from refreshing my memory with Perry a couple of
minutes ago, it's a hack for another djb-thing called ezmlm. The
problem here is that qmqpd seems to require more than what we have in
base.

Also, the fact that QMQP_README.html is empty and that I couldn't find
the "Postfix ezmlm-idx howto", makes me wonder how many people in the
world are using this daemon.

P.S.: I'm not taking words from Perry's mouth, just trying to explain
the issue.
-- 
  Rui Paulo			<rpaulo@{NetBSD{,-PT}.org,fnop.net}>