From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 6 19:54:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA11983 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 19:54:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA11978 for ; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 19:54:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id MAA25128; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 12:24:25 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id MAA04638; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 12:24:01 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19981007122400.M27781@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1998 12:24:00 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Frank Pawlak Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dos and Don'ts References: <19981006071237.02443@follo.net> <199810060831.BAA28468@mailgate.cadence.com> <19981006191816.S27781@freebie.lemis.com> <19981006114101.A11242@execpc.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <19981006114101.A11242@execpc.com>; from Frank Pawlak on Tue, Oct 06, 1998 at 11:41:01AM -0500 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday, 6 October 1998 at 11:41:01 -0500, Frank Pawlak wrote: > On Tue, Oct 06, 1998 at 07:18:16PM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: >> On Tuesday, 6 October 1998 at 9:30:44 +0000, Duncan Barclay wrote: >>> Contentious ;-) >>> DONT use sendmail, use exim. >> >> Indeed. Better: >> >> Use sendmail, the One True MTA. (for the benefit of -questions, this comes from a discussion in -doc about some "does" and "dont's" to be distributed with the next CD). > I am a Sendmail user with about a year or so experience with Unix. I > keep hearing that Sendmail is bad and the Exim, Qmail, and indeed > Vmailer, when ever it is released, are superior. > > Is there is quick and dirty explanation for why this is so? This is > rather confusing. I am under the impression that the lion's share of > Internet mail is routed by Sendmail. Outside of it running as root what > are the problems with it? Don't take my statement above out of context: it was supposed to suggest a Holy War. There are, of course, problems with every version of mail. I haven't followed the discussions enough to be able to offer an opinion. As you say, nearly every installation (including mine) uses sendmail, and it works well. Others may have some advantages, but I don't see that as sufficient reason to say "DON'T use sendmail". Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message