Oy Lloyd, batchmate and PLDT Fine Arts guy! (Hehe joke lang) Nice to see you here. So, have you yet realized that you just started a flame war around here? ;)
I don't have much to contribute, as I've only used sendmail (and only as an experiment with the (then) courses.ateneo.edu server). But if you're just looking for something that works and want to take off in a nostalgic road trip (or scared to try out anything else out there for fear of getting trampled upon by the technomob), then start experimenting with sendmail right away -- it's good for you, and it will get you acquainted with its strengths and flaws to see why people here on this board prefer postfix/qmail/whatever. =) To get you started, let's just say that sendmail was an age-old solution designed to work with lots of outgoing mail-delivery protocols out there, way before there was a standard. We have less use for this benefit nowadays since the SMTP standard has been here for so long, and unfortunately all the extra infrastructure needed to support tons of protocols made sendmail big and bloated, and consequentially hard to maintain security-wise. (To others: don't quote me on this, and don't even argue with me--I'm not even a techie. ;)) All in all, sendmail is a very wise engineering effort for its time, but it would benefit from a cleaner redesign now. Not a recommendation based out of personal experience, but I'm gonna try postfix myself once we get a few Linux boxen to play with. Eric ^_^ _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.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]
