Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1998 22:29:44 -0400 (AST) From: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> To: sthaug@nethelp.no Cc: jmb@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP: Postfix is coming. new uid, gid required. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9812312225490.9916-100000@thelab.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <15807.915119903@verdi.nethelp.no>
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On Thu, 31 Dec 1998 sthaug@nethelp.no wrote:
> > > > We gain the ability to emphasise Postfix and de-emphasise Sendmail.
> > > > After an appropriate period, we gain the ability to nuke Sendmail
> > > > as Postfix has been solidly tested/used/ported/integrated for
> > > > "long enough". No combustion over definitions of "long enough",
> > > > please :-).
> ...
> > Here here...I trust and like sendmail, and have no intentions of
> > switching from it...
>
> I have worked with sendmail for a long time, and have made consulting
> money helping companies to configure their sendmail systems. But "like"
> and "trust" are words I'd never use together with sendmail. Even after
> having worked with sendmail for a long time, I found qmail considerably
> easier to get started with (and easier to configure in general).
>
> If Postfix can help us get away from sendmail as the default, I'd say
> it's definitely a good thing.
>
> But I fear this discussion is going in the religious direction...
Hasn't it been such since the beginning? The problem is that its being
proposed to take the *established* religion (sendmail) and replacing it
with someone else's idea of "the perfect religion" (postfix)...
If -core feels that this is the right thing to do, there isn't a thing any
of us are going to do to stop this (as has been seen at least once in the
recent past?). The *most* appropriate solution to this whole thing, so
far, that has been proposed, is to remove both and make then *both*
ports...
Marc G. Fournier
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org
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