On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 05:18:35PM -0500, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Sat, 4 Nov 2006 03:07:05 +1100 > Steffen Kluge <kluge@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Switch to postfix right now > > I've seen this advice many times, and I find it easy to believe that > postfix is better, having run screaming from sendmail config files > in the past, but when I recently went to read up a bit on postfix, > the very first thing I read on the home page is: > > >Postfix attempts to be fast, easy to administer, and secure, > >while at the same time being sendmail compatible enough to not > >upset existing users. > > If it is sendmail compatible, doesn't that mean it has the same > config file that can be used to frighten little children? No. The behavior is compatible. The configuration is sane. > I'd be far more attracted to postfix if the homepage said it was > in no way remotely similar to sendmail :-). Except that *lots* of (arguable broken) programs call sendmail directly, so having something that behaves like sendmail honors the principle of least surprise. Kurt
