On Thu, 19 Sep 2002, Ian C. Sison wrote: > In short, nothing that can convince me that sendmail is a better solution > than qmail or postfix. So please excuse me if i disagree totally with > you. I do not accuse you of being a zealot for anything (you keep on > repeating that), what i do is speak my mind about what i consider to be a > better solution on a purely technical basis. > > If you want to refute me, then do so also on a technical basis, not on > what may be construed as circumstancial evidence to support your point, > the irony of which is that they can be also used to support my point.
circumstantial evidence? I was giving you hard facts or links from the internet and you showed me nothing! :) All I can see are opinions. You also mentioned that: "Forget sendmail. It's slow, it's old, its monolithic, its insecure, and its a resource hog." slow: A search in google for "sendmail benchmarks" (take a grain of salt...) and take a look at what you see. Fastest is qmail, sendmail and next is postfix. But they are not terribly far away in performance. If you can give me a benchmark which shows that sendmail is very slow, that would be great. old: If it's old, you will not use it? X, *nix and cobol is old but are being used until today. What's the point? monolithic: Yes, bind and linux can be _________ ? What's the point? Insecure: Historically yes. with the new version or old version? Resource hog: Care to backup that statement? Since you evaluated them all, could you share some hard facts about it? I'm not out to convince you that sendmail is a better solution. If you don't want to use sendmail, fine. I really don't care. :) Just don't impose your opinion not to use it on others or bash people who use it as their MTA. This is a free country after all. If people opt for sendmail because they want technical support, have in-house sendmail knowledge or enterprise mail needs, respect that decision. regards, --- Andre M. Varon, SCSA http://andre.lasaltech.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] Fully Searchable Archives With Friendly Web Interface at http://marc.free.net.ph To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
