Re: FWTK and smap/smapd

[Paul Robertson <proberts () patriot net>]

On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, Dominik Miklaszewski wrote:

> I don't know why people don't like sendmail sooo much ;)

[A.] Bloated, slow, cryptic and privileged... ;)
[B.] Experience running it. ;)

[snip]
> IMHO Running sendmail is not a suicide anymore.. especially when you have a
> chance to set 99% of those bells&whistles through m4 :)

Having run Sendmail, SMail, and Postfix as a gateway for relatively good 
sized user bases (~30,000 users), I can't stress how much easier Postfix 
made my life (as well as kept me out of having to do machine upgrades due 
to load.)

It may not be suicide anymore, but it's still more painful than the 
top alternatives (Postfix, Qmail, Exim.)  

It's no secret that I'm a Postfix fan- I like code that's well written, 
defaults sanely, is modularized where approrpriate and is easy to pare 
down to essentials when building systems that need to be trustworthy.  The 
fact that it also plays well with others and gives me lots of control over 
the types of things I feel I need total control over is just an added 
bonus.  


Paul
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