From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 2 11:29:52 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0B0C106564A for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2011 11:29:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cpghost@cordula.ws) Received: from mail-qy0-f182.google.com (mail-qy0-f182.google.com [209.85.216.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EC4F8FC0A for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2011 11:29:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qyk36 with SMTP id 36so7587075qyk.13 for ; Wed, 02 Feb 2011 03:29:51 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.229.184.7 with SMTP id ci7mr6305483qcb.241.1296646190012; Wed, 02 Feb 2011 03:29:50 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.229.102.19 with HTTP; Wed, 2 Feb 2011 03:29:49 -0800 (PST) X-Originating-IP: [93.221.172.50] In-Reply-To: <4D4870A8.3060706@ifdnrg.com> References: <4D48197A.8000108@gmail.com> <20110201102301.2ae55810@scorpio> <201102011326580606.004CE418@sentry.24cl.com> <861v3rzgcs.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> <4D4870A8.3060706@ifdnrg.com> Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 12:29:49 +0100 Message-ID: From: "C. P. Ghost" To: Paul Macdonald Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: FreeBSD Subject: Re: qmail or postfix? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2011 11:29:52 -0000 On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 9:44 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. =A0Or 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? sendmail's support of a UUCP backend maybe? But apparently, it's possible to do that in postfix too[1] so I don't really know of any compelling reason to stick to sendmail, except for being accustomed to configuring and managing it, which is a purely subjective matter. [1]: http://www.postfix.org/UUCP_README.html -cpghost. --=20 Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/