Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 12:29:49 +0100 From: "C. P. Ghost" <cpghost@cordula.ws> To: Paul Macdonald <paul@ifdnrg.com> Cc: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: qmail or postfix? Message-ID: <AANLkTim3RvmOKx50u72vJSQUUNDPfnSqJgiyoHtT5C1n@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4D4870A8.3060706@ifdnrg.com> References: <4D48197A.8000108@gmail.com> <20110201102301.2ae55810@scorpio> <201102011326580606.004CE418@sentry.24cl.com> <AANLkTimtvjT4K8ATX22-DQQX6-iJNc9fc4-FmMm5x3EM@mail.gmail.com> <861v3rzgcs.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> <4D4870A8.3060706@ifdnrg.com>
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On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 9:44 PM, Paul Macdonald <paul@ifdnrg.com> wrote: > On 01/02/2011 19:48, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: >> >> No, seriously... I was using sendmail before discovering postfix, and >> pretty darn good at m4. =A0Or is that m4()dnl()? :) >> >> But I've never found postfix without a knob to do something I want it to >> do, and most of the knobs are set properly right out of the box. (And >> reasonably named too!) >> > so for us folks still using sendmail (which works fine for me) > > what benefits do we get with postfix that'd outweigh the hassles of > changing? sendmail's support of a UUCP backend maybe? But apparently, it's possible to do that in postfix too[1] so I don't really know of any compelling reason to stick to sendmail, except for being accustomed to configuring and managing it, which is a purely subjective matter. [1]: http://www.postfix.org/UUCP_README.html -cpghost. --=20 Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/
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