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On 2/1/2011 at 8:44 PM Paul Macdonald wrote:

|On 01/02/2011 19:48, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
|>
|> No, seriously... I was using sendmail before discovering postfix,
and
|> pretty darn good at m4.  Or is that m4()dnl()? :)
|>
|> But I've never found postfix without a knob to do something I want
it to
|> do, and most of the knobs are set properly right out of the box.
(And
|> reasonably named too!)
|>
|so for us folks still using sendmail (which works fine for me)
|
|what benefits do we get with postfix that'd outweigh the hassles of 
|changing?
 =============


If you are happy with sendmail, why change a working thing?


For me, the need to move to Postfix became very apparent once I wanted
to make some [what I thought to be] simple configuration changes
(different transports for different domains, virtual mailboxes, etc.).
 

I found sendmail's configuration to be daunting.  So I looked
elsewhere.  About ten years ago I started using Postix and I've not
looked back.