On Friday, 17 October 2008 at 15:13, Les Mikesell wrote: > Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > >>>i've just wondered why sendmail is still the default MTA in Fedora. > >>>Please enlighten me? [...] > >>the milter capability lets you extend it with features that don't > >>share the full permissions of the main process yet can interact in > >>real time during delivery. > > > >Milter is supported by alternatives too > > They pretend to, but won't actually run complex milters like MimeDefang. Postfix will: http://www.mimedefang.org/kwiki/index.cgi?Milter ... Milter and Postfix The Postfix MTA implemented partial Milter support in version 2.3 and more complete support in 2.4. See http://www.postfix.org/MILTER_README.html for details. MIMEDefang 2.63 works with Postfix. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > >Not that I particularly want to shoot ambulances, but those are not > >good arguments. > > Sorry, but I don't see any counterargument here. The alternatives are > all worse. Postfix is not worse. I'd argue that's it's better in every respect, but I guess you wouldn't listen anyway and I'm a bit short on time. Regards, R. -- Fedora http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Rathann RPMFusion http://rpmfusion.org | MPlayer http://mplayerhq.hu "Faith manages." -- Delenn to Lennier in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations" -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
