Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1998 16:36:44 -0400 (AST) From: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> To: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> Cc: "Steven P. Donegan" <donegan@quick.net>, "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>, "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@FreeBSD.ORG>, committers@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP: Postfix is coming. new uid, gid required. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9812311636060.9916-100000@thelab.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <199812311622.SAA60127@greenpeace.grondar.za>
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On Thu, 31 Dec 1998, Mark Murray wrote:
> "Steven P. Donegan" wrote:
> > Not to flame at all - but what wonderful things does postfix bring that
> > would induce anyone to move away from sendmail? Move from something that
> > works in the millions of systems, is understood by vast numbers of sys
> > admins, etc? If postfix can do something sendmail can't what is it? And
> > an answer that it's easier to configure isn't really valid for us lifer
> > sendmail folks :-)
>
> 1) Vastly easier to configure :-). (Very valid for newbies).
> 2) A heck of a lot more efficient. Sendmail is designed to work;
> this is designed to work _fast_.
> 3) More secure. The author is security-paranoid. This is good.
> 4) So far (apart from myself) I have seen no rumblings at all
> about removing Sendmail.
I've seen a couple, myself included...today was the first I clued
into the fact that ppl were suggesting *replacing* sendmail with
postfix...
Marc G. Fournier
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org
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