Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 11:10:23 +0100 From: Mark Drayton <mark.drayton@4thwave.co.uk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: [going OT] Re: Any mail server software that could run on FreeBSD? Message-ID: <20010428111022.A7944@tethys.valhalla.net> In-Reply-To: <00fd01c0cf97$3be441c0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>; from tedm@toybox.placo.com on Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 08:56:41PM -0700 References: <F161hbN2tEwLqJrfP6n000040d6@hotmail.com> <00fd01c0cf97$3be441c0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>
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Ted Mittelstaedt (tedm@toybox.placo.com) wrote: > Rubbish - has Sendmail been removed from the distribution? > Last I saw Sendmail was the default, qmail was an optional port. > I'd say that if you want to construe anything as a recommendation, > this is pretty overwhelming. As has been previously stated: changing the default MTA is *not* a trivial task. > Qmail is usually advised for those people that don't like reading > the manual and prefer to just install software and go, without > knowing anything about what they are installing. This is because > qmail is _simpler_. Obviously, when you make something > _less flexible_ you make it _simpler_ thus easier for the > unwashed masses to digest. Is it necessary to understand every intricate detail of an MTA to set one up properly? I'm more useful to my employer if I can get the software going first and learn everything there is to know later. > There's a reason, after all, that qmail is the default for > Linux. Sorry? Default for what distribution? None of the most popular distributions use Qmail as their default MTA. RedHat, SuSE and Slackware all use sendmail and Debian uses Exim. That was a cheap shot, Ted. -- Mark Drayton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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