Re: Qmail is not a replacement for Sendmail

[thomas . erskine-dated-a34ed2cf3dd50a3d]

On Wed, 28 Apr 1999, Troy Morrison wrote:

[snip]
> Anyway, I guess my point is that qmail has a bigger learning curve than
> I've encountered in some time, but once that is overcome it *is* much
> better (IMHO, of course) than Sendmail.

I'd like to disagree with this. :-)

I don't believe that qmail has got a steeper learning curve than
sendmail.  I don't believe that most people running sendmail have much
understanding of how it works.  What is perceived as a steeper learning
curve for qmail is the fact that you *are* learning how it works.  

When you couple this with the facts that:
        - qmail and sendmail work differently (to accomplish the same
          tasks), and 
        - most people installing qmail have some (IMHO vague) idea of the
          outward functioning of sendmail, 

*of*course* "qmail has a steeper learning curve".  This is the difference
between learning .01% of sendmail as opposed to 80% of qmail.

> Troy

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