On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 9:44 PM, Paul Macdonald <p...@ifdnrg.com> wrote: > On 01/02/2011 19:48, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: >> >> No, seriously... I was using sendmail before discovering postfix, and >> pretty darn good at m4. Or is that m4()dnl()? :) >> >> But I've never found postfix without a knob to do something I want it to >> do, and most of the knobs are set properly right out of the box. (And >> reasonably named too!) >> > so for us folks still using sendmail (which works fine for me) > > what benefits do we get with postfix that'd outweigh the hassles of > changing?
sendmail's support of a UUCP backend maybe? But apparently, it's possible to do that in postfix too[1] so I don't really know of any compelling reason to stick to sendmail, except for being accustomed to configuring and managing it, which is a purely subjective matter. [1]: http://www.postfix.org/UUCP_README.html -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
