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#SECTION00231000000000000000 > > > 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. > -- > 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. -- Regards, Doncho N. Gunchev Registered Linux User #291323 at counter.li.org GPG-Key-ID: 1024D/DA454F79 http://pgp.mit.edu Key fingerprint = 684F 688B C508 C609 0371 5E0F A089 CB15 DA45 4F79
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