[WBEL-users] Postfix or Sendmail
steve
steve@goquest.com
Wed, 31 Mar 2004 14:12:42 -0600
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On Wednesday 31 March 2004 01:38 pm, Milan Keršláger wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 08:17:01PM +0200, Michiel van Es wrote:
> >
> > >>>Any feedback on the setup? Sendmail or Postfix? Pros and Cons?
> > >>
> > >>Postfix is more secure. Sendmail is big ball with big holes (at least in
> > >>the past).
> > >
> > >
> > > It's been a while since there's been major problem with sendmail. At
> > >this point, if I were you, I'd probably toss a coin. If both do
> > >everything you need them to and you are equally comfortable in both pick
> > >the one you think will be easiest for a future admin to work with (like
> > >after you're retired or whatever).
> > >
> > Ik also find the "Postfix is more secure. Sendmail is big ball with big
> > holes (at least in the past)." very lame.
> > Please give good arguments before takin' a crack on a outstanding
> > mailserver like Sendmail.
> > I do not say Postfix is worse..I think they have both pros and cons but
> > I am not going to tell that Sendmail is bad and not give any good
> > argument why it is such a bad decision.
> > If I had to choose it is Sendmail for it's simplicity and it's
> > virtusertable function which is not 100% implemented in Postfix (imho).
>
> I don't know what to say more. At least sendmail has a big holes in the
> past. And everytime they promised "this is the last problem".
>
> Don't make me wrong - I'm using sendmail since 1993.
>
> Yes - there is a lot of design changes in last (few) years but...
> The sendmail is here only because of long history. This is better to
> move to postfix now (the second mailer in RHEL, WBEL or so).
>
god forbid you ever have anything positive to say!
why do you even monitor this list? you certianly don't contribute anything other than bad karma.
GO AWAY!
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