On 2004-11-06 (Saturday) 14:08, Iago Rubio wrote:
On Sat, 2004-11-06 at 00:19, Doncho N. Gunchev wrote:
> On 2004-11-02 (Tuesday) 04:48, Z wrote:
> > I don't like sendmail myself, but postfix is pretty complex as well.
> Not that complex. I spent about a week to get sendmail working
> almost the way I wanted it to. With postfix I can make much more
> complicated things in a few hours (and it's not only me)...
Because you know Postfix, and don't know sendmail. With m4 sendmail is
not so difficult to configure.
Read my other mail in the list - m4 goes away in sendmail X project:
http://www.sendmail.org/~ca/email/sm-X/design-2004-09-29/main/main.html
http://www.sendmail.org/~ca/email/sm-X/design-2004-09-29/main/node2.html#...
> I want to mention that postfix's security record is much better,
Not true.
Just look to the past two years.
The historical security record of sendmail is poor, but to compare it
with the security record of tools that does not even exists when those
security holes appeared is not fair.
Of course if I code tomorrow "foomail" will have a better security
record than Postfix.
True, but here we do compare two projects that are not from yesterday.
Qmail's has security guarantee
http://cr.yp.to/qmail/guarantee.html and
bad license. For postfix I don't know if such exists, but I don't remember
security problems too (look at the changelogs of postfix and sendmail).
> it is faster and eats less resources too
Did you benchmarked this, or are those simply your intuitions ?
I readed third party benchmarks of sendmail vs Postfix vs Qmail, and
Postfix had the worst results.
I also readed benchmarks from Postfix advocates and Postfix had the best
results. You can find this benchmark in lots of Postfix sites, the same
benchmark I mean.
True about the benchmarks, for me it works faster, but...
But well, what I'd like to ask is: What's wrong with current fedora's
MTA management ?
You can use Postfix, you can use sendmail, you can switch betwen them
... What's the problem then ?
Are you advocating to delete sendmail ??
Are you proposing any other MTA management scheme better than current
fedora's one ?
Removing sendmail is not an option for me(read my other mail). The
only thing I can dream of is to be able to not install fedora without
sendmail at all, but I don't dream too much :)
If you'll not do it, this thread is simply a waste of time.
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Iago Rubio
Don't get mad at me. I just think sendmail's configuration is
quite cryptic and postfix's is much better... The second part of my
email was "I want to mention", next time I will not.
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