I dunno. First it was Qmail vs. Sendmail, then there was a stint with Exim. Now it's Postfix vs. Sendmail ...
This sort of thing just never stops. One day it's this, next day it's that. Lucky I didn't become a Unix admin. If it doesn't come with Red Hat 6.2 it's bad imo, except SSH, which I had to compile from source :) As you can see, once committed I like sticking with what I know. Which is an easy path to obsolescence :) > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Behalf Of Amos Shapira > Sent: Friday, 23 November 2007 8:46 PM > To: Slug > Subject: Re: [SLUG] Quick and dirty mail/spam server > > > On 23/11/2007, Minh Van Le <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Postfix is good > > > > Hey doesn't anybody use Sendmail anymore ? > > Some do. > > When I started working for some place which was practically windows > people pretending to know a thing or two about Linux one of my first > questions was "why sendmail? it has so many bugs, so many features > nobody needs these days and such a brain-dead configuration scheme" > and they said "that's the legacy we have, it works so we don't fix > it", it turned out that "it works" meant also that the sendmail boxes > were constantly at up to 100.0 load average, dropping tons of > connections, and practically can't cope with the volume of messages > they received, but they though "it works" simply because they didn't > even know how to "ssh mail server w". > > With some script tweaking and a couple of days with the sendmail > documentation I was able to bring the machines to a state where they > are hardly loaded and actually one machine can cope with all the load > instead of three (e.g. scripts running every couple of minutes to work > on small chunks of incoming mail instead of once every 15 minutes > having to cope with huge amount of messages, locking processes so the > next cron job will notice that the previous one haven't finished, > configuring a single sendmail queue running process to wake up every 5 > minutes instead of firing a new one every hour, etc). > > So Sendmail is NOT my first choice when installing an MTA, but it's > not so bad either. > > Another example I know is a major ISP that has few dozens of sendmail > servers. They are the most professional Linux people I had the > privilege to work with but again - sendmail works, it would be a huge > task to replace it and the benefits of touching it are not clear so > they stay with it. > > --Amos > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
