Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 21:09:24 -0600 From: Jeffrey Goldberg <jeffrey@goldmark.org> To: "mail.list freebsd-questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: receiving mail Message-ID: <B340DD75-078F-4E9E-A113-43D02F50EFED@goldmark.org> In-Reply-To: <2C672D07-3AC3-4BC9-8E91-782B967BF99F@mac.com> References: <Pine.GSO.4.63.0901132255420.9369@hmacs.cmi.ua.ac.be> <200901131429.07667.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> <Pine.GSO.4.63.0901140844360.850@hmacs.cmi.ua.ac.be> <2C672D07-3AC3-4BC9-8E91-782B967BF99F@mac.com>
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On Jan 14, 2009, at 1:02 PM, Chuck Swiger wrote: > On Jan 13, 2009, at 11:51 PM, Pieter Donche wrote: > >> What's wrong? Why does this not work out of the box ?? > > Given the security history of sendmail, it's not prudent to enable > sendmail by default. It's not just that, but people who don't understand how mail transport works, shouldn't be running mail servers. > I expect to deal with sendmail for as long as I administer Unix > boxes, but alternatives like Postfix in particular would be my > preference from a number of standpoints. I'm in the same position. I starting running alternatives to sendmail in the late 90s on systems that I knew I was always going to maintain, but for systems that would be passed to others to maintain, I stuck with installing sendmail because there was much more expertise. Now a- days, I'm happy to set up Postfix on such systems (but will still use exim for myself). Cheers, -j
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