Re: [Newbie] Howto setup mailserver??

From: Keith Matthews (invalid_at_frequentous.co.uk)
Date: 08/31/05

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    Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 10:40:08 +0100

    Martin Latos wrote:

    >
    > I would still recommend sendmail ... it is a standard for MTA isn't it ?
    > It's in default installation for a reason.
    >
    >

    I've seen two reasons given -

    1 Theo does not like the license, he considers it to be free (the way the
    qmail one was not) but it has some limitations he does not like. I've seen
    posts from the man himself to this effect. How this will be affected by the
    licence rationalisation being carried out by the OSI remains to be seen.

    2. Reputedly Theo will not accept anything that is incompatible with
    sendmail.cf. And sendmail.cf is the biggest part of the learning curve.

    There is also the issue that changing the default is a major problem for
    existing installations due to changes in config files. This is probably at
    the root of 2 above. New installations are another matter though.

    Some Linux distributions are now using postfix as the default (SuSE
    certainly and I suspect Mandriva do so too) so changes may happen. A lot
    depends on whether we get a new rash of security incidents with Sendmail,
    there've been none for nearly 2 years now, but any really nasty ones may
    well prompt a review of the situation with many FLOSS packagers (after all
    quite a few dumped WU-ftpd for proftpd after the last rash of security
    incidents).

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