Until now, we have seen some arguements on postfix versus sendmail. It looks loke a dead horse. But it isn't. I have replaced an old OpenBSD running postfix with a fresh yound and new OpenSolaris as mail concentrator. :( Now I have lost incoming mail twice, and a great amount. Because the OpenSolaris does not resend the mail when the receiving MTA is unavailable! Unbelievable! I lost mail! For the second time in my life! I also posted this to the sendmail list, asking how to recover, but was told, sendmail wouldn't lose any mail, blabla. This is how it is set up here: running some fetchmail as daemon, and then .forward. This does run and used to for ages on OpenBSD/postfix. Now it still does, but when the MTA mentioned in .forward is out of reach, it is over. The sendmail list informed me that principally it would retry. But actually, all those mails are gone now; the first time the MTA was out for some 42 hours, last weekend, and all incoming mail lost. Yesterday, it was out for some 18 hours, it has been back for more than 4 hours now, and not a single mail has arrived. Alas, the old OpenBSD/postfix, a P-233 (!!) has been decomissioned. Since postfix did the job splendidly, I guess this is a great argument for switching to postfix: That it works and has been working out of the box, always. Whereas sendmail fails me reproducibly. And no, I haven't done any modifications to it. Again, it works - splendidly might be an exaggeration here - when the target MTA is up, so my settings should be all fine. And any MTA of quality ought to retry, for at least 2/5 days, if it can't deliver the message. Sendmail, at least on OpenSolaris, doesn't.
Anyone running postfix with fetchmail/.forward? I bet it works. Uwe -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ sysadmin-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/sysadmin-discuss
