Huray for flaming over MTA's! the reality is there are a number of MTA's which are all in common use which indicates that they must have strengths which people value. it is therefore logical to assume that they also have weaknesses which people feel are an acceptable trade for the strength. no doubt they can all be configured to be very sure and very standards compliant, or configured to just be an open relay.
there may also be licensing issues which may cause some favour and as has been mentioned, tradition will have some influence. so if you prefer sendmail, exim, postfix, qmail or <other>, there is no need to be immature in advocacy. Dean On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 11:28:14 +1100, O Plameras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jeff Waugh wrote: >> <quote who="Glen Turner"> >> >> >>> Yes please Jeff. Of the 40-odd Australian universities about a third > use >>> sendmail. So unless you are running something like hotmail, what are > the >>> demonstrated scalability issues with sendmail for sites of less than >>> 100,000 users? >>> >> >> The rest of your mail, and an astute comment from one of your other > mails, >> describes why original comparison is amusing (aside from the amusement > value >> of the poster): Scalability no longer depends on the MTA, sendmail is > mostly >> in use where it has a large traditional install base, there are > relatively >> few greenfields sendmail deployments, new deployments favour modern > MTAs, >> etc. But mostly it was the amusement value of another bizarre statement > from >> Oscar. I should not feed... :-) >> > > > Jeff can't help but be childish in his replies if any one else notice. > Again, refer to the archives of SLUG. > > Because Jeff's childishness is apparent in many of his commentaries, I > can't help but wonder why some people have > to put up with his behavior. > > Childish responses does not help us understand the > advantages/disadvantages of one server over the other. > > So, Jeff tell us what you know about sendmail compared to postfix and > I'll explain to you why sendmail is such > a professional and scalable server. > > O Plameras > > > > > -- > 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
