On 12/2/2012 6:08 PM, John R Pierce wrote:
On 12/2/2012 2:46 PM, Tilman Schmidt wrote:
Not a good advice for someone who already has some experience with Sendmail but none with Postfix. He'll have to read docs either way, but staying with Sendmail spares him the effort of reinstallation (including probable breakage of his running installation), and reading the docs of a familiar product (Sendmail) is much easier than reading the docs of an unfamiliar one (Postfix).
except he doesn't have a working configuration with sendmail and is apparently a novice, so the postfix recommendation is, IMHO, a good one.
Why? Once upon a time, many years ago, I tried postfix. I ended up removing it and installing sendmail. I've been using sendmail since the early 1980's, when we were running the Eric Allman code from UCB on a VAX 780 under BCD Unix. And, yes, I recognize this as a religious topic and I'm not trying to start a flame war. Why, in your opinion, is postfix superior to sendmail.
Harold (who's first linux system was slackware 1.0)