jsms: sendmail must die completes itself

[Ivan Kohler]

I don't understand why you feel the need to write a new MTA.  Why not
simply apply your user interface design and write config generators for a
couple popular MTAs?  Best of both worlds.

On Wed, Jun 30, 1999 at 05:03:55AM -0700, Jonathan Walther wrote:
> 
> For those of you that missed my initial posting, sendmail, postfix, smail,
> exim and qmail must die.  These are elegant, beautiful, efficient, secure
> and powerful emailers, to be sure.  But not one has addressed the issue of
> sensible user interface.  jsms attempts to rethink the process of
> configuring mail from first principles, assuming if the program becomes
> popular, that will be motivation to add in all those elegance, security and
> efficiency features to the codebase, after the interface is good and settled
> down.
> 
> The interface is done, the design is done. Please download the tarfile,
> type "make install" as root (if you are paranoid, look at the makefile, it
> only copies some text files around) then type "man jsms".
> read the manpage, then edit the config files and create a setting for your
> own box.  I would like to see the results you come up with so I can improve
> the clarity of my documentation so people "get" it with minimal fuss and
> confusion.
> 
> http://mindanaoguide.com/jsms.tgz
> 
> Yes, theres no working code, or code at all.  Thats because I am a user 
> interface designer.  The code will follow, but before I touch it the
> design (no code design, config file design) must be sound. Unless I've made
> some seriously wrong assumptions, the config files you come up with now will
> work exactly when I do provide a working binary.
> 
> As always, this is a GPL project.  If you have any questions, please ask.  I
> want to get this interface evaluated... Stress it out!  Think of funky mail
> situations, and see if my interface isn't powerful enough to simply handle
> it with a minimum of fuss and bother.
> 
> For those of you who can recieve attachments, find jsms.tgz already attached
> to this mail, otherwise you hotmail folks can download it.
> 
> SirDibos
> 
> DISCLAIMER:  This has nothing to do with my day job at DVBS, so those of you
> reading this who work with me, feel free to disregard it.
> 
> PS: jsms stands for Jonathans Simple Mail Server



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