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)