Some thoughts on security after ten years of Qmail 1.0

Re:Some thoughts on security after ten years of Qmail 1.0 by djsumdog on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @02:09AM (#16166070)

I remember qmail being the first MTA to really push Maildirs. I ran qmail personally back then on my Linux fom Scratch, but I also was a student lab admin and I think on our student e-mail server, we still ran sendmail at the time, on good old Redhat (back before it was split into RHEL and Fedora).

Software like qmail and the dev file system at the time really rubbed a lot of people the wrong way because of the drastic design changes they push. I'm glad that particular dev file system died as it had a lot of weirdly named nodes and a devfs daemon that had to run to create symbolic links to all the known names.

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Re:Some thoughts on security after ten years of Qmail 1.0 by zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @02:38AM (#16166178)

Well, Maildir was invented by djb ;-)

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Re:Some thoughts on security after ten years of Qmail 1.0 by arca_vorago on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @03:08AM (#16166283)

DJB is probably one of my favorite people in the tech world. Ever since I read about the court case he won against the US government while representing himself, he's been a sort of hero of mine.

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Re:Some thoughts on security after ten years of Qmail 1.0 by oblio on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @06:01AM (#16166975)

That's quite impressive, but Wikipedia says that case was dismissed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernstein_v._United_States

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Re:Some thoughts on security after ten years of Qmail 1.0 by tinus_hn on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @06:35AM (#16167095)

The rules he was challenging had changed so what he wanted to do was no longer against the rules. His case was that the rules did not allow him to do something that was allowed by the constitution. As that situation no longer existed the case was dismissed.

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