Personally, whether it's sendmail, postfix, qmail or something else I
couldn't care less. We all have our MTA of choice.
For the mail server I pull whatever it is it out to run spamdyke/qmail
with an IMAP (dovecot) interface for access from all the other
machines. I've done it dozens of times over the years and it takes me
less than an hour starting from source.
The other machines just have to send or relay to the mail server so they
could use whatever does the job. In this case, I could choose something
like nullmail, but why bother? For the few cron jobs etc. that need to
send messages, I wouldn't sweat whether X is better than Y. They all
get the job done.
On 1/25/11 10:22 PM, Ken Gunderson wrote:
On Tue, 2011-01-25 at 10:58 -0800, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
On 01/25/11 10:50 AM, Ken Gunderson wrote:
As for the MTA discussion, Postfix is pretty much a drop in replacement
for Sendmail, and my vote would be to replace Sendmail entirely.
I still don't understand this subthread - if someone wants to start working
on postfix as a development project for a future release, that makes sense,
but doing it as a bug fix in a stable branch that's just supposed to be
providing fixes for the b148 already shipped? That just seems to violate
the definition of a stable branch. At the very least it should go into
the development branch first to get some testing before you even consider
backporting it to stable.
(Not that I get a vote - that's up to the developers who actually do the
work, not those of us just here to provide color commentary.)
Few are going to use Sendmail for anything other than sending notices to
root. It would create a better first impression if OI shipped with a
modern MTA such as Postfix or Exim. Postfix, being a drop in
replacement for Sendmail, would be relatively painless. There's a
saying that you never get a 2nd chance to make a 1st impression. Also
that perception is 9/10ths of reality.....
Sure, the *BSD ship with Sendmail, but that is mostly for historical
reasons and that nobody wants to get into a holy war as to what a more
modern default should be. At the time Debian opted for Exim, Sendmail
was one security exploit after another waiting to happen, Postfix was
not yet in existence and Qmail, the other potential contender, had an
unacceptable license. Several Linux distributions ship with Postfix.
Just because Oracle makes a poor decision and ships Sendmail doesn't
mean OI necessarily has to follow, no?
It's not a big deal to me. I was expressing agreement with others
who've lobbied for Postfix.
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