>> I think it's just that "sendmail is the standard" -- at least in the >> UNIX world. Postfix is certainly good, and what I prefer personally, >> but in a UNIX environment I expect sendmail...just because it's UNIX. > > Nobody has previously proposed postfix. Do we have a package anywhere > already?
Explicitly decoupling sendmail updates from other things - and ripping the explicit dependencies out of core bits of ON - would be a wonderful step toward making a substitution of postfix in for sendmail easier. The current situation in Solaris is that a machine being used as a postfix server is very difficult to patch. ;) [You can do it, but you really have got to do some other prep work first... like making sure that SUNWsm* package files are all in the proper pre-postfix locations... which is why nobody at my site does it.] I should probably be filing RFEs, eh? --elijah
