Why Sendmail?

2008-03-14 Thread Gustavo Polillo
Why is sendmail a default smtp server and not is postfix or qmail?

Re: Why Sendmail?

2008-03-14 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 10:07:49AM -0300, Gustavo Polillo wrote: Why is sendmail a default smtp server and not is postfix or qmail? What are people not reading the FAQ? -Otto

Re: Why Sendmail?

2008-03-14 Thread Martin Schröder
2008/3/14, Gustavo Polillo [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Why is sendmail a default smtp server and not is postfix or qmail? http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq1.html#HowAbout

Re: Why Sendmail?

2008-03-14 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 9:07 AM, Gustavo Polillo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why is sendmail a default smtp server and not is postfix or qmail? For several very good reasons including tradition, licensing, sendmail being well suited for the job, and the people in charge liking sendmail.

Re: Why Sendmail?

2008-03-14 Thread Dave Wilson
Gustavo Polillo wrote: Why is sendmail a default smtp server and not is postfix or qmail? Why is it that this message got attatched to an existing thread in my mail client? Ah. Because it has the exact same subject line, and covers the exact same subject. Funny that. To make this email

Re: Why Sendmail?

2008-03-14 Thread Gustavo Polillo
oh! sorry.. thanks... :| 2008/3/14, Martin Schrvder [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 2008/3/14, Gustavo Polillo [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Why is sendmail a default smtp server and not is postfix or qmail? http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq1.html#HowAbout

Re: Why Sendmail?

2008-03-14 Thread Alexander Hall
Otto Moerbeek wrote: Why is sendmail a default smtp server and not is postfix or qmail? What are people not reading the FAQ? Because then they would have no excuse for not searching the mailing list archives before posting?

Re: Why Sendmail?

2006-11-24 Thread Conrad Winchester
a MTA running, at least to manage email from nightly/weekly/monthly check. So, default MUST be mta running (you can choose to stop it). Why sendmail? Why not? p.s. i usually use another MTA -- Cris, member of G.U.F.I Italian FreeBSD User Group http://www.gufi.org/

Re: Why Sendmail?

2006-11-24 Thread Paolo Maero
Martin, Why being so nice? Fear of widening openbsd customer base? /Paolo On Nov 23, 2006, at 2:44 PM, Martin Schrvder wrote: Search the archives, you troll

Why Sendmail?

2006-11-23 Thread Conrad Winchester
First of all hi! My name is Conrad and I am new to the world of OpenBSD, but not unix in general. I have just done my first install of a server using OpenBSD and am extremely impressed. I do have one question though and I apologize if people always ask this: At the end of the install I asked

Re: Why Sendmail?

2006-11-23 Thread Martin Schröder
Search the archives, you troll

Re: Why Sendmail?

2006-11-23 Thread Cristiano Deana
running (you can choose to stop it). Why sendmail? Why not? p.s. i usually use another MTA -- Cris, member of G.U.F.I Italian FreeBSD User Group http://www.gufi.org/

Re: Why Sendmail?

2006-11-23 Thread Paul de Weerd
On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 01:32:29PM +, Conrad Winchester wrote: | First of all hi! My name is Conrad and I am new to the world of OpenBSD, but | not unix in general. | | I have just done my first install of a server using OpenBSD and am extremely | impressed. | | I do have one question though

Re: Why Sendmail?

2006-11-23 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
Selon Conrad Winchester [EMAIL PROTECTED]: at this point? I NEVER use sendmail and for an OS that prides itself on being as minimal as possible I would have thought giving you the option to Where is it stated that OpenBSD prides itself on being as minimal as possible? -- Antoine

Re: Why Sendmail?

2006-11-23 Thread Gregory Edigarov
I think it is because of cron jobs, that use to send mails to root . Conrad Winchester wrote: I do have one question though and I apologize if people always ask this: At the end of the install I asked whether I want to run sshd and ntpd by default - very nice BUT why am I not given the option

Re: Why Sendmail?

2006-11-23 Thread Will Maier
On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 01:32:29PM +, Conrad Winchester wrote: I do have one question though and I apologize if people always ask this: At the end of the install I asked whether I want to run sshd and ntpd by default - very nice BUT why am I not given the option to turn off Sendmail at

Re: Why Sendmail?

2006-11-23 Thread z0mbix
On 23/11/06, Conrad Winchester [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First of all hi! My name is Conrad and I am new to the world of OpenBSD, but not unix in general. I have just done my first install of a server using OpenBSD and am extremely impressed. I do have one question though and I apologize if

Re: Why Sendmail?

2006-11-23 Thread Josh Grosse
On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 01:32:29PM +, Conrad Winchester wrote: ...why am I not given the option to turn off Sendmail at this point? I NEVER use sendmail... See afterboot(8) for a description of the sendmail configuration. See daily(8) for a discussion of system maintenance logs which are