From owner-freebsd-current Thu Dec 31 19:26:39 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA24599 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 31 Dec 1998 19:26:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail13.svr.pol.co.uk (mail13.svr.pol.co.uk [195.92.193.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA24591 for ; Thu, 31 Dec 1998 19:26:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pierre.dampure@k2c.co.uk) Received: from modem-91.doxycycline.dialup.pol.co.uk ([62.136.63.219] helo=bladerunner.k2c.co.uk) by mail13.svr.pol.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 2.10 #1) id 0zvvE3-0007vJ-00 for current@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 1 Jan 1999 03:26:11 +0000 Received: from k2c.co.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bladerunner.k2c.co.uk (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id DAA00944 for ; Fri, 1 Jan 1999 03:21:54 GMT (envelope-from pierre.dampure@k2c.co.uk) Message-ID: <368C3F52.D343F827@k2c.co.uk> Date: Fri, 01 Jan 1999 03:21:54 +0000 From: "Pierre Y. Dampure" Organization: K2C Ltd X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sendmail throughput (was: HEADS UP: Postfix is coming. new uid, gid required.) References: <199901010122.RAA05674@apollo.backplane.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG My two cents (or "mes deux francs", or whatever... and I should most probably stay put about it): I currently contract for Barclays Capital (investment bank). Our "mother" company, Barclays Bank Plc, relies on sendmail for Internet mail traffic and uses FreeBSD as the external mail hub. All in-house Un*x boxen use sendmail as their MTA (HP, Sun). The Un*x support staff swears and breathes by the Bat Book. So does the staff in all other major City banks I know of. I have NO problems seing Postfix brought up as a port -- we already do so for other MTAs and the /etc/make.conf option makes it easy -- but, up until we have a RELEASED version (as opposed to a beta, even if it's better than most releases), I think we should not bring it into the contrib tree -- for risk of losing credibility. Don't get me wrong, most of us here in BC (and elsewhere I guess) are already looking at Postfix -- we are painfully aware of sendmail's deficiencies and would love to use a better tool. The point is: it will take some time for Postfix to get recognised / accepted, let's not jump the gun. Best Regards, PYD To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message