On Sat, 2004-10-30 at 23:14 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > Le samedi 30 octobre 2004 à 12:53 -0700, Per Bjornsson a écrit : > > On Sat, 2004-10-30 at 04:52, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > > > Le samedi 30 octobre 2004 à 13:59 +0300, Mircea MITU a écrit : > > > > To exclude Sendmail, it would be stupid, but making Postfix the default > > > > MTA it would be a smart move. > > > > > > Unfortunately at this point if would not only be a smart move but a long > > > overdue one. I hope it's not one of those cases where Novell/Suse did it > > > first so RH won't even contemplate it. > > > > Gee, having fun with the conspiracy theories? ;) If this was the case, > > why would Red Hat package Postfix at all? Likely it's just that there > > isn't really any consensus on this, > > Tss gcc 2.96, apache 2, xinetd... > RH is usually not so timid dumping yesterday's everyone-uses-it tech (in > fact users have been more known to complain about RH fondness for new > stuff that "breaks" Linux as-they-know-it than the reverse) > > I'm stiff ROTFL remembering the last time the MTA question was raised > and the argument was sendmail sucks, postfix and exim are better, but > since we can't agree if we like postfix or exim best, sendmail stays the > default. > You're right, those are silly reasons. But I, for one, I see two major reasons to make this switch, from sendmail to postfix as the MTA of choice: 1. SANS Top Vulnerabilities, U5. Mail Transport Service http://www.sans.org/top20/#u5 2. The very first thing done by the almost all the people I know after a RH/Fedora install, is rpm -e sendmail I really wonder how many subscribers are still using Sendmail. -- This message was scanned for spam and viruses by BitDefender. For more information please visit http://linux.bitdefender.com/
