Re: sendmail is slow for mass mail
On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 09:42:01AM -0400, Richard A Nelson wrote:
> Mixing/matching of DB, LDAP, text, HESIOD, PH (not on Debian), etc.
> for *ANY* map: aliases, access, etc.
Ah, but postfix does that, and does it better, adding posix and pcre
regex's and SQL or whatever to the mix.
> Why suffer with `sendmail compatible' when you can have the `REAL
> thing'?
Because Postfix is simpler, therefore easier to audit and trust. It
runs less stuff as root. It isn't a fight to make it run chrooted
(and even does so as default in Debian) and generally is trivial to make
it do stupid mta tricks.
After installing it on a couple play machines, it was the obvious
replacement for sendmail... fast, trustworthy, and a pleasure to play
with. (The code is actually understandable!)
Oh, and I'd trust Wietse with a root shell on any of my machines.
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