Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1998 18:22:55 +0200 From: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> To: "Steven P. Donegan" <donegan@quick.net> Cc: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>, "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: <199812311622.SAA60127@greenpeace.grondar.za> In-Reply-To: Your message of " Thu, 31 Dec 1998 08:10:26 PST." <Pine.BSI.3.91.981231080612.26431D-100000@oldnews.quick.net> References: <Pine.BSI.3.91.981231080612.26431D-100000@oldnews.quick.net>
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"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. M -- Mark Murray Join the anti-SPAM movement: http://www.cauce.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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