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A look at Slackware 10.1
A look at Slackware 10.1
Posted Feb 11, 2005 13:12 UTC (Fri) by syndicate (guest, #27535)Parent article: A look at Slackware 10.1
Hmm... I don't get it. Why would distributions still ship sendmail? Postfix and exim are far better MTAs.
It's strange, Red Hat does the same thing.
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A look at Slackware 10.1
Posted Feb 13, 2005 3:48 UTC (Sun) by maney (subscriber, #12630) [Link]
Maybe they're afraid of offending Cheswick, Bellovin and Rubin by making their wonderful capsule summary of sendmail less accurate:The most common implementation of SMTP is contained in sendmail. This program is included free in most UNIX software distributions, but you get less than you pay for.