Re: [Mailman-Users] Sendmail getting bum rap...

2001-10-25 Thread Ralph Forsythe
> >...if I need a Ph.D. and five feet of shelf space for the manuals > >required to make it run, I don't want it on my network... > That's what separates the "system engineers" from the "skr1pt k1d33s". ;-) I don't like needing 30 books just to make a program work, but most of the time that isn'

Re: [Mailman-Users] Sendmail getting bum rap...

2001-10-25 Thread Amanda
You're right, I'd have torn out all my hair and gone back to teaching things like the psychology of complex musical compositions. :-) =) Amanda "Derek J. Balling" wrote: > >...if I need a Ph.D. and five feet of shelf space for the manuals > >required to make it run, I don't want it on my netwo

Re: [Mailman-Users] Sendmail getting bum rap...

2001-10-25 Thread Derek J. Balling
>...if I need a Ph.D. and five feet of shelf space for the manuals >required to make it run, I don't want it on my network... Man, you would have never made it in the days of VAXen and the big {blue,orange,grey} walls ;-) D -- +-+-

Re: [Mailman-Users] Sendmail getting bum rap...

2001-10-25 Thread Jon Carnes
On Thursday 25 October 2001 13:48, Amanda wrote: > My fundamental issue with sendmail is that it's not intuitive. Sendmail is not intuitive. Very true, and a very good argument against its use. If you don't mind, I'll translate that statement into "Sendmail is overly complex and convuluted."

Re: [Mailman-Users] Sendmail getting bum rap...

2001-10-25 Thread Amanda
to install software, my > experience is > that if you solely rely on the availability of an RPM, then you may be > missing out on other alternatives. > > - Original Message - > From: "Jon Carnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > S

Re: [Mailman-Users] Sendmail getting bum rap...

2001-10-25 Thread Timothy Brier
experience is that if you solely rely on the availability of an RPM, then you may be missing out on other alternatives. - Original Message - From: "Jon Carnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 11:24 AM Subject: [Mailman-Users

[Mailman-Users] Sendmail getting bum rap...

2001-10-25 Thread Jon Carnes
On Thursday 25 October 2001 10:48, Timothy Brier wrote: > I couldn't agree more. I was using the RPMs from RedHat with Sendmail. > It was taking about 30 minutes to deliver 500 messages. > > I downloaded and installed Postfix (not the RPM) and watched the time > drop to 1 minute and 45 seconds.