Sendmail and Postfix

Is it likely for some sites to move from
Sendmail to Postfix?

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Man-wai Chang ToDie (33.6k) unleashed the infinite monkeys on 20/08/2008
10:36 producing:
>
> Is it likely for some sites to move from
> Sendmail to Postfix?

Are you looking for advice on doing that (in which case, you probably
want to ask the Postfix folks, rather than on a sendmail newsgroup ;>)?

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> Are you looking for advice on doing that (in which case, you probably
> want to ask the Postfix folks, rather than on a sendmail newsgroup ;>)?

Not really. Just wanna know how Sendmail folks think about Postfix...

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On Thu, 21 Aug 2008, Man-wai Chang ToDie (33.6k) wrote:

>> Are you looking for advice on doing that (in which case, you probably
>> want to ask the Postfix folks, rather than on a sendmail newsgroup ;>)?
>
> Not really. Just wanna know how Sendmail folks think about Postfix...

Why would you ask that? Unless your in here just for some trolling
Everybody has their own favourite MTA, since we all use Sendmail, and not
Postfix, that alone should answer your question.


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On 08/21/08 05:43, Man-wai Chang ToDie (33.6k) wrote:
> Not really. Just wanna know how Sendmail folks think about Postfix...

As long as you are asking in the sense of an intellectual question
rather than trying to start a flame war, I'll chip in a bit.

I know multiple people that have run Postfix and / or QMail over the
years. Both Postfix / QMail have served their needs, and usually (from
what I have been told) simpler than Sendmail can do a basic (read:
single domain) install. However when it comes to doing more advanced
things (more than a few domains, advanced filtering, etc) IMHO Sendmail
tends to shine.

Sendmail is intended to be a work horse to do things crossing mail
boundaries (think SMTP verses UUCP verses faxing verses ...) where as
(to the best of my knowledge) Postfix and / or QMail are meant to work
with in mail boundaries.




Grant. . . .

> Sendmail is intended to be a work horse to do things crossing mail
> boundaries (think SMTP verses UUCP verses faxing verses ...) where as
> (to the best of my knowledge) Postfix and / or QMail are meant to work
> with in mail boundaries.

I guess I am not good in Sendmail enough to understand this statement.
Later...

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> Why would you ask that? Unless your in here just for some trolling
> Everybody has their own favourite MTA, since we all use Sendmail, and
> not Postfix, that alone should answer your question.

Not trolling at all. I am not peaching about Postfix here.

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In article
<mailman.104.1219329311.14636.comp.mail.sendmail@m aillists.riverviewtech
..net>,
Grant Taylor <gtaylor@riverviewtech.net> wrote:

> On 08/21/08 05:43, Man-wai Chang ToDie (33.6k) wrote:
> > Not really. Just wanna know how Sendmail folks think about Postfix...
>
> As long as you are asking in the sense of an intellectual question
> rather than trying to start a flame war, I'll chip in a bit.
>
> I know multiple people that have run Postfix and / or QMail over the
> years. Both Postfix / QMail have served their needs, and usually (from
> what I have been told) simpler than Sendmail can do a basic (read:
> single domain) install. However when it comes to doing more advanced
> things (more than a few domains, advanced filtering, etc) IMHO Sendmail
> tends to shine.
>
> Sendmail is intended to be a work horse to do things crossing mail
> boundaries (think SMTP verses UUCP verses faxing verses ...) where as
> (to the best of my knowledge) Postfix and / or QMail are meant to work
> with in mail boundaries.

Not really. At least not for Postfix.

Postfix is a reasonable replacement for Sendmail in most cases, and is
not significantly harder to deal with for complex filtering or many
domains. I find it hard to come up with a rational argument for
Sendmail over Postfix for new installations these days, although it is
also very hard to justify making a switch to Postfix and in some cases
(e.g. adequately complex custom cf rulesets) a switch would be a lot of
work.

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