Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 18:53:01 -0700 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Nikos Vassiliadis" <nvass@teledomenet.gr>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Cc: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>, Pollywog <lists-fbsd@shadypond.com> Subject: RE: Why is sendmail in the core of FreeBSD? Message-ID: <BMEDLGAENEKCJFGODFOCKEHACAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <200709241510.30366.nvass@teledomenet.gr>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Nikos > Vassiliadis > Sent: Monday, September 24, 2007 5:10 AM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Cc: Giorgos Keramidas; Pollywog > Subject: Re: Why is sendmail in the core of FreeBSD? > > > On Saturday 22 September 2007 23:41, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > On 2007-09-22 20:12, Pollywog <lists-fbsd@shadypond.com> wrote: > > >On Saturday 22 September 2007 19:27:36 Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > >> That's because there's no such thing as a "newbie Sendmail user". > > >> Nobody stays a newbie long enough if they configure Sendmail properly > > > > > > That is why I use Postfix. I would not go from Postfix to Sendmail > > > because it would make life difficult. > > > > Heh, what I wrote was supposed to be a joke, but oh well :-) > > You haven't been forced to administer sendmail. That's > why you are making jokes about it. Well, I was, and it > wasn't much fun ;) Probably because you were forced. I was never forced to admin sendmail and I have a lot of fun with it, frankly. I even ran UUCP with it for a few years. What I find the most "unfun" part of administering a mailserver, to be perfectly frank, is the subsidiary programs. For example, can anyone explain why clamav has suddenly decided to consume 70% of CPU at about 15 seconds to scan a simple 4K message on a server I have with a 3Ghz dual-core CPU? I find programs like clamav, spamassassin, dspam, mailscanner, etc. etc. to be big black boxes, with ugly configuration files and senseless internals, but that are nevertheless critical to handling mail on a large scale today. Far more critical, I might add, than the MTA and local delivery agents. Ted
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