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Re:Some thoughts on security after ten years of Qmail 1.0 by technion on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @11:25PM (#16174694)
qmail won't even compile on modern glibc without the errno patches - you must have at least some patching done.
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Re:Some thoughts on security after ten years of Qmail 1.0 by aplorbust on Friday January 19, 2018 @01:45PM (#16188609)
Not using glibc.1

Not using Linux.

Advice for all commenters who make presumptions about others computer use: Please kindly check your assumptions.

1 Is this an issue for musl and the various other alternatives to glibc? I have no idea but seems like only referring to glibc 2.3.x and up is a bit myopic. Its possible some users might not be using that library. I am one such user.

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