On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Yann Forget wrote:
> Any way, drop Sendmail. Use Postfix.
> Yann
Why use Postfix? It is funded by IBM and they don't even use it:
Let's try nslookup:
ibm.com preference = 0, mail exchanger = ns.watson.ibm.com
Let's try telnet on ns.watson.ibm.com port 25:
220 ns.watson.ibm.com ESMTP Sendmail 8.9.1/8.9.0; Wed, 1 Mar 2000 16:17:49
Need proof it's related to IBM? On the Postfix web site:
"Postfix is the freeware project that I started during my sabattical year
in the USA while visiting IBM T.J. Watson Research. I am grateful to IBM
for the opportunity to write this software and for their permission to
give it away."
Besides, the official release is a BETA release...
I have Sendmail on all my servers sending and receiving millions of
messages per day, virtual hosting, spam control, special routing,
co-managers for some domains who add users, aliases and redirections, and
everything is fully configurable by Linuxconf with either command line
tools, text menus, X-based GUI or html forms so that even a newbie can do
it. I also have an e-mail-to-fax gateway with the TPC.INT network on one
of my servers. With Postfix, you have to edit config files by hand, and
even me, a seasoned Sysadmin, don't even know how I could implement all
those features using Postfix.
So, please explain me what's so hot about Postfix. Quite frankly, I don't
get it. I don't say Postfix is bad, but I would like to have concrete,
documented reasons that could convince someone to switch to Postfix.
By the way, sorry for the syntax, English is my second language. If you
want to reply me personnaly, you can do it in French, but if you want to
use the mailing list, reply in English.
Regards,
Jean-Michel Dault
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [The ISP I'm managing]
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