On Mon, 1 Oct 2001, dwen wrote: > > > but some of the BIG ISP's here in Pinas..use Sendmail ...you know who you > are ;-)
I wonder who they are? Probably not much emphasis on email delivery efficiency, duh! > > I agree with Ian..it's hard to maintain but for me it's not that > slow..lalo na ngayong 8.12.0 na version. > back when i was also using sendmail, i thought that it also wasn't slow. And mail got delivered ... eventually anyway. But again, that was before i got to taste just how efficient qmail and postfix were \8) > > > dwen > > > > > postfix and qmail are both scalable (so is sendmail).. > > > > I agree with all points except the one above. 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. > > > > 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. > > > > > > > > > > postfix has more features ( as in per default) qmail > > > has patches .. > > > > > > one thing though something that i haven't seen from > > > any other MTA around > > > > > > qmail+ldap's native clustering support ( pop/imap > > > session forwarding) http://www.nrg4.com > > > > > > this is very good for scalabity i know someone using > > > it for 2 million users ( a friend in #qmail at efnet ) > > > > > > -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] > > > > > > > _ > > 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] > > > > > > _ > 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] > _ 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]
