On Tue, 21 Sep 2010, Jay G. Scott wrote:
they haven't started shouting yet, but i sense it's coming.
i don't think i need to be exhaustive. but right now
i don't have anything i can use to win this argument,
objectively, anyway.
And ed is the standard editor, and has a great memory footprint on the
Timex Sinclair 1000. :-)
The following arguments are about as objective as you're going to get, I'm
afraid:
1) It speaks SMTP, ESMTP, and SMTP over secure channels. Just like
Sendmail. Imagine that.
2) The configuration files do not require a masters degree in both
linguistics and computer science. Just requires a bit of moxie. Not
necessarily the soda - but that's your call.
3) Last I checked, the O'Reilly book isn't as thick as the Sendmail tome.
And this one applies primarily if it is, indeed, the case:
4) It's working. It's moving mail. It's not causing the magic smoke to
come out of the machine room. Unless they plan on regular direct
interaction with the mail server (oppose merely sending and receiving
email), then they just need to put on the big girl panties and deal with
it.
To be blunt, if your Sendmail guys are going to gripe about memory
footprint, then it's probably time for them to move Sendmail off of the
386 SX 25 with 4 MB of RAM, and perhaps relegate said 386 to maybe
serving internal NTP for a six machine LAN. :-) This said, if they need
an MTA that will also do the dishes, they might want to go to Sears and
ask somebody some questions
-Dennis
