>qmail is djb produce and as such any argument about it tends to get
>polarized in a hurry. Personally, I don't like qmail, from not liking
>both its and djb's style. Apart from that, I don't consider it fit for
>use on the internet.

Well, AFAIK qmail inevitably creates outscatter for received spams to invalid addresses. Outscatter has become considered a special sort of spam, and get's the IP number of the sender listed. So djb wasn't paranoid *enough* when he designed qmail.

OTOH the flood of outscatter which started last September was stopped a week ago by the SEC[1], as any mail admin will have noticed.

>On the other hand, if all you want is hand off mail to your isp, you
>don't even need a fully fledged MTA like sendmail or postfix; you could
>get a minimalist SEP MTA from the ports and use that.

I'm sure that SEP does not refer to Douglas Adams' "Somebody Elses Problem", but what does it stand for?

[1] The Stock Exchanges Commisssion of the USA. They've got guns, money, and lawyers, and obviously have used them against those spammers who sent big loads of spam with forged (Envelope-)From. -- The first entry of Sin into the mind occurs when, out of cowardice or conformity or vanity, the Real is replaced by a comforting lie. -- Integritas, Consonantia, Claritas