Hi
I've to reinstall my system and I was wondering about changing my MTA
to sendmail.
Could you give me opinion about sendmail.
My priority is safety and performance. Is it better than postfix.

Ziemek

quoting Ziemek (22 Jan 2007 04:11:34 -0800):

> I've to reinstall my system and I was wondering about changing my MTA
> to sendmail. Could you give me opinion about sendmail. My priority
> is safety and performance. Is it better than postfix.

I don't deal in MTA wars.
Use the one you like.
Sendmail and postfix are both qualified modern mailers.

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Dick Hoogendijk <dick@nagual.nl> writes:

> quoting Ziemek (22 Jan 2007 04:11:34 -0800):
>
>> I've to reinstall my system and I was wondering about changing my MTA
>> to sendmail. Could you give me opinion about sendmail. My priority
>> is safety and performance. Is it better than postfix.
>
> I don't deal in MTA wars.
> Use the one you like.
> Sendmail and postfix are both qualified modern mailers.

"Comparative studies" do exist anyway. Comparing "leading MTAs" in
"not easy to challenge" way is a very tricky business :-)

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In article <1169467894.661247.206510@s34g2000cwa.googlegroups .com>,
"Ziemek" <zwas@wp.pl> wrote:

> Hi
> I've to reinstall my system and I was wondering about changing my MTA
> to sendmail.
> Could you give me opinion about sendmail.
> My priority is safety and performance. Is it better than postfix.

No one here can tell you who you are.

If you are used to Postfix, and it isn't causing you trouble that you
can point at but not fix, you should probably stay with it.

Sendmail excels at complex environments where you need behavior that you
can't readily make Postfix do, perhaps because there's a strong case
that no one should be doing them. On the other hand, Postfix makes some
things very easy that Sendmail cannot do without learning to write (or
blindly cribbing) the sendmail.cf language.

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Now where did I hide that website...

Ziemek wrote:
> Hi
> I've to reinstall my system and I was wondering about changing my MTA
> to sendmail.
> Could you give me opinion about sendmail.
> My priority is safety and performance. Is it better than postfix.
>
> Ziemek
>

Yes and no. In my environment it is. It may or may not be in yours. I
hate working with postfix, personally, but others can say the same about
sendmail. I haven't found either be inherently more safe as any problems
found in both products are quickly corrected.

While I can say sendmail gives me more control and has greater
versatility, a postfix user might say sendmail is too complicated. I
might respond by saying postfix is too simple as evidenced by the
relative wealth of options in sendmail and the next thing you know you
have this:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=ObaAcV33xqk

dp