Like all software, Qmail can survive only when it keeps up with changing requirements.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
At the time the Sendmail program had a very poor reputation with respect to security, with four root vulnerabilities per year for two successive years.
E-mail is the most influential application ever to appear on a personal computer, and it remains sadly deficient.
The crucial legacy of the personal computer is that anyone can write code for it and give or sell that code to you - and the vendors of the PC and its operating system have no more to say about it than your phone company does about which answering machine you decide to buy.
The challenge with Postfix, or with any piece of software, is to update software without introducing problems.
I think most people either forget or don't know that Microsoft only hires people with I.Q.'s well over 130.
As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.
Email has the virtue - sounds like a bad thing, but it's the virtue of being the lowest common denominator messaging protocol. Everyone can have it. It can cross organizational boundaries. No one owns it. It's not some particular company's platform.
Our mail product, Hotmail, is the market leader globally.
Qmail out of the box works fine, so people will want to use it regardless of licensing restrictions, even when the software does not ship with their system software.
I believe in opening mail once a month, whether it needs it or not.