On Saturday 02 September 2006 02:29, Hans du Plooy wrote: > On Sat, 2006-09-02 at 00:36 +0200, T wrote: > > My suggestion, speaking from my heart breaking experiences, is that if > > you are a normal user, not a mail expert or system admin who need to play > > with mail configuration as you full time job, stick with sendmail, and > > keep away with postfix, exim, etc. > > I don't understand your logic. An full time mail admin would easily get > his head around any MTA, and might opt for sendmail because of it's > configurability. But an ordinary user who don't know much about how > mail works? Even then, why should a full time admin waste days learning sendmail.cf when exim and postfix are practically plug and play by comparison, and takes only minutes to learn? I know I can't answer that, and I've deployed mail servers professionally before. Half an hour dinking with exim versus two days and hoping it's right with sendmail...not a hard choice. I'm sure some sites have a need for the extra configurability of sendmail, though I would estimate the vast majority of sendmail sites aren't doing anything that couldn't be done easier and with less guesswork with an MTA that isn't rococo¹. ¹ http://ursine.ca/rococo -- Paul Johnson Email and IM (XMPP & Google Talk): baloo@ursine.ca
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