Re: Postfix as default MTA?
On Mon, Jun 28, 1999 at 10:47:59PM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote:
> On 28-Jun-99, 08:26 (CDT), Christian Meder <meder@isr.uni-stuttgart.de> wrote:
> > postfix some real world experience wrt configurability. If postfix is
> > fast that's nice but the _default_ Debian MTA should be _very_ configurable
> > too as it's used in setups ranging from dialup home systems to heavily
> > loaded mailinglist managers.
>
> While I have no real opinion about postfix vs. exim, I'm not sure
> I agree with this statement. Yes, the default should be easily
> configurable to a wide variety of situations, mostly by people who are
> not MTA literate (which is probably more of a documentation issue, and
> points to the need for cookbook-type setups: "if your situation is X,
> then do Y"). But why does the default need to be able to handle the
> Linux kernel mailling lists? Anybody running a major mailling list
> server should be able to install and configure an alternative MTA, if
> that's what it takes.
>
> Of course, I won't object if the Debian default is all things to all
> people. But I don't think it needs to be such.
What I meant was that people switching from our current default mailer to our
future default mailer shouldn't experience any loss in configurability _or_
speed/robustness. I'm pretty sure we've got users which handle quite large
sites with exim now. So I think except very large sites like kernel mailing
lists we have a 'catch it all' default mailer already.
Anyway the point is mute as enough developers already commented in favour
of postfix. Now just give the other developers a couple of months to catch
up and then we'll bring the topic up again.
Greetings,
Christian (waiting for the postfix package in main ;-)
--
Christian Meder, email: meder@isr.uni-stuttgart.de
What's the railroad to me ?
I never go to see
Where it ends.
It fills a few hollows,
And makes banks for the swallows,
It sets the sand a-blowing,
And the blackberries a-growing.
(Henry David Thoreau)
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