On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 10:21 -0400, Chris Mauritz wrote:
Johnny Hughes wrote:
On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 15:52 +0400, jean-sebastien Hubert wrote: [snip]
The problem is in fact "postfix", there is no mysql support by default (in RHAS4) , but the rpm is simple to rebuild.
For the record, there is a postfix in the centosplus repo that has mysql support built in.
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And it works well. I've been using postfix since 1998-ish and haven't even considered going back to sendwhale since. Postfix is faster (by a rather wide margin) and much easier to maintain. And now I don't have to speak in tongues (M4) to edit my config files. 8-)
---- Really? Did you have some empirical evidence for this performance difference or was this a subjective conclusion by someone what apparently never got the m4 macro concept down?
I use both sendmail and postifx and think that both have their strengths and weaknesses and never saw m4 as a problem, in fact, I think it is one of sendmail's greatest strengths. I never noticed a performance difference either. It's awfully easy to configure and maintain. Postfix has more granularity of configuration options.
I think that if your notions of sendmail and postfix were widely held, that few would use sendmail any longer.
Craig