Piete wrote:
>
> If you are considering *EASE OF USE* of an *MTA* for mailing lists,
> then qmail is indeed a contender.
> The above sound like the kind of things one would expect of a mailing list
> package (e.g. majordomo) rather than an MTA.
Ah, but all qmail, as an MTA, does is forward mail to user-foo to
user. Both sendmail and exim can do this. This is the whole extent
of qmail's "ease of use" as an *MTA*. Generation of the envelope-from
lines that encode the envelope-to address is done by qlist, a mailing
list package.
> Don't compare chalk with cheese !
I wasn't, I was comparing qlist (a mailing list package) with others.
qlist has one nice feature (not currently offered out of the box by
other MLMs, although there are add-on scripts to do so and LISTSERV
has a probe that sort of does this). qlist still lacks many others
that smartlist has (I checked -- it doesn't do all the things I
listed). Thus, qlist+qmail have the advantage of providing one very
nice feature out-of-the-box. But, the MTA end of this is a simple
configuration option in both sendmail and exim, and wrt the MLM, qlist
is a lightweight.
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Michelle Dick artemis@??? East Palo Alto, CA
