Richard Bignell wrote:
| qmail: it seems to me more complicated to configure than sendmail.
| Once you get a code size over 8 .c files I see little difference
| between the reviewability of
| qmail and that of sendmail. At least I'm familiar with sendmail.
Having participated in a security code review process for a
while, we decided to look at qmail over sendmail for several reasons.
One of the biggest was the size. Although better commented, it seemed
to us that sendmail was too large to review in a reasonable time
frame.
Sendmail has 46k lines of code, qmail has 16k, as counted by
wc *.[ch]
Adam
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"It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once."
-Hume
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