> Sendmail is not scalable. > If it were, then a lot of heavy SMTP sites would use > it, and there would > be no complaints about resource use and delivery > speed. If it were, then > there would be no projects like qmail or postfix > which provide a decent > alternate SMTP server.
these things are being addressed :) sendmail now support smtp pipelining which removes the smtp latency problem (hopefully) rfc1854 http://www.sendmail.org/8.12.0.html :) > > Sendmail is monolithic. > Sendmail is insecure. > Sendmail is difficult to configure. > Sendmail is a pain to maintain. > Sendmail is not scalable. > > Please do not use sendmail. okay just to clear things for the new versions of sendmail monolithic - there is an ongoing project to solve this (or is it included in 8.12?!!?!) insecure - read the latest changelog included in the 8.12 release ( one major exploit in 3 years not bad ) hehehe http://www.sendmail.org/%7Eca/email/doc8.12/SECURITY difficult to configure - :) aren't all things difficult if we don't give time to read and think of things. sendmail is pain to maintain = i agree sendmail is not scalable = again the new versions of sendmail has better support for ldap and other crap :) but i won't say don't use it .. but i will tell you to use postfix or qmail I don't use sendmail but one thing it has its pro's, pro's that makes it worth using.. -Dek [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Listen to your Yahoo! Mail messages from any phone. http://phone.yahoo.com _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
