qmail dead ? was: [Gllug] ezmlm status?

[Mike Brodbelt]

On Tue, 2004-03-16 at 15:07, Jason Clifford wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Mar 2004, Tethys wrote:
> 
> > >If you do decide to move, Postfix and Exim are both very much worth 
> > >investigation. I use postfix extensively.
> > 
> > You seem to have forgotten to mention sendmail. It's still IMHO the best
> > all round MTA. And despite what Bruce may claim, you *don't* have to be
> > Mike Brodbelt to be able to use it (although it may help...)
> 
> It was very much a deliberate ommision on my part.
> 
> I've spent years with sendmail, running it for large sites and doing 
> consultancy for others around it too, and I would not recommend it for 
> anyone these days.
> 
> In my view postfix (my own preference) and exim are far better choices.
> 
> I wont touch sendmail now unless someone has their wallet out.

A shame. It still has features that no other MTA can match. Milter,
socket map, and a level of flexibility that it's competitors will, by
design, never reach. Today's m4 based configs make it almost trivial to
configure in most cases. I tend to think it fits one of the Perl
catchphases well - it makes the easy things easy and the hard things
possible. I've also never lost mail with sendmail, which is more than I
can say for friends who've run some of the alternatives (though it's
hardly frequent, admittedly).

Mike.

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