Some good points made. But what's wrong with source. I have a few little apps I like to run, ok its on my intel laptop <tut>, but there are no .debs for them. I have an area under /usr/local/src that I use to keep tabs on what s/w I use that isnt .debs. Then again, I suppose if your looking after a set of servers then you would want to have the easy upgrade path etc... Hmmm, maybe I should have put more thought into this reply. :-) Anyway, source isnt as bad as it seems. Honest. Simon On Tue, 2002-06-18 at 21:10, Jones, Steven wrote: > Having used "debian's" sendmail and exim for 3+ years I can honestly say I > prefer Sendmail, but mostly because Im a wee bit more familiar with it than > exim. Ive found them both very reliable and stable, as for security bugs how > long has it been since one was found in sendmail? over 2 years? I dont > recollect a CERT or SAN's or any other alert in that time. > > We could get into a religious war over mta's just like we do over distro's, > i prefer to use sendmail because of its links to enterprise stuff and > scalability (grin) so its suits me to learn /suffer it, otherwise exim is > probably easier. > > BTW has anybody tried running Samsung's Contact on Debian? (ne HP Openmail) > so far Ive been forced to put Red Hat 7.3 on my HA cluster as Ive been > unable to get it to install/work. > > :( > > I think Debian did a install package for netscape Navigator a while back, > whats the chances of similar for Contact? if I could code I'd do it, but my > perl gets as far as "hello world" > > ;/ > > But Id be happy to write up docs. > > This might sound mad but Im finding that trying to run commercial packages > on Debian is becoming all but impossible, I have compaq servers stuff that I > run Red Hat on not because I want to but because there is no .deb's for the > array software (some of its even source....) > > :( > > regards, > > Steven > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Andrew Sharp [mailto:andy@netfall.com] > Sent: Tuesday, 18 June 2002 3:01 > To: debian-sparc@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Mail Server? > > > Mark Eichin wrote: > > > > > I was surprised that no one was really pushing qmail or sendmail..... > > > > Why were you surprised? qmail, while useful, isn't DFSG-free. And > > sendmail is pretty much a legacy system :-) (Although in theory it > > has improved, the phrase "a security hole you could drive a sendmail > > through" is still common jargon...) > > qmail can be annoying if you just want to configure your server and > forget it exists. If I had a company with thousands of employees and > severe scalability, dns, and improperly configured recipient servers > were hourly problems, qmail would probably be on my list. That whole > custom file system thing turns out to be really annoying at the very > worst moments, however. Exim works great and I don't have to switch > my brain to `genius' to configure it. Sendmail, well geez, have you > ever tried to configure sendmail? Eric should be shot for the > billions of hours of system administrator time over the years that > have been wasted trying to configure sendmail. Sure, there is a nifty > program that helps you configure it now, but, too little, too late, I > say. Smail, I haven't used but it looks reasonable, and I haven't > heard anything [credible] bad about it. > > a > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-sparc-request@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmaster@lists.debian.org > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-sparc-request@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org >
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