From owner-cvs-all Thu Dec 31 12:37:34 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA16248 for cvs-all-outgoing; Thu, 31 Dec 1998 12:37:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from thelab.hub.org (nat1262.mpoweredpc.net [142.177.186.246]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA16228; Thu, 31 Dec 1998 12:37:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by thelab.hub.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id QAA16204; Thu, 31 Dec 1998 16:36:45 -0400 (AST) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) X-Authentication-Warning: thelab.hub.org: scrappy owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1998 16:36:44 -0400 (AST) From: The Hermit Hacker To: Mark Murray cc: "Steven P. Donegan" , "Daniel C. Sobral" , "Jonathan M. Bresler" , committers@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP: Postfix is coming. new uid, gid required. In-Reply-To: <199812311622.SAA60127@greenpeace.grondar.za> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message