Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1998 08:41:33 -0800 (PST) From: "Steven P. Donegan" <donegan@quick.net> To: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> 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: <Pine.BSI.3.91.981231082907.26431F-100000@oldnews.quick.net> In-Reply-To: <199812311622.SAA60127@greenpeace.grondar.za>
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On Thu, 31 Dec 1998, Mark Murray wrote: > > 1) Vastly easier to configure :-). (Very valid for newbies). For me and vast numbers of 'old' hands this is not any form of plus, if anything it's a minus (new, unneccessary to learn change). > 2) A heck of a lot more efficient. Sendmail is designed to work; > this is designed to work _fast_. A possible plus for the (I think) minority where sendmail poses any performance issues - I found sendmail to be quite capable of a hundred thousand or so transactions per hour - for the few who need more - make it a port - not the default... > 3) More secure. The author is security-paranoid. This is good. I appreciate that - however, the vast amount of sendmail literate folks tend to make security fixes to bugs real-time, how many postfix internals literate folks are there besides the author? > 4) So far (apart from myself) I have seen no rumblings at all > about removing Sendmail. > I have a definite rumble about removing sendmail - making postfix a port is great, making it the default and/or removing sendmail is IMHO a really non-smart idea until postfix proves itself. What's the rush? If it's such a great thing the masses will start asking for it, let it mature in the ports area until enough people ask for it to be the default. Don't remove something that everyone uses and don't bloat the distribution without a good reason. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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