Looking forward to Fedora Core 2
Looking forward to Fedora Core 2
Posted Dec 18, 2003 14:57 UTC (Thu) by havardk (subscriber, #810)Parent article: Looking forward to Fedora Core 2
Postfix has been included in RedHat/Fedora for a while, but sendmail will be installed by default in a new installation.
Posted Dec 19, 2003 17:21 UTC (Fri)
by X-Nc (guest, #1661)
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Posted Dec 24, 2003 3:26 UTC (Wed)
by trustcommerce (guest, #7616)
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inetd was the "workhorse of the internet" and Red Hat wisely replaced it with xinetd a few versions ago. BSD lpd was the standard UNIX print system for decades, but they replaced it with CUPS recently. And Netscape Navigator was the standard UNIX browser for countless years, but they thankfully replaced it with Mozilla. Sendmail has had a good run, just like inetd, lpd, and Netscape Navigator. But now it's time to take it out back and put a bullet in its head to make room for a modern replacement like Postfix.
Posted Dec 26, 2003 2:05 UTC (Fri)
by dskoll (subscriber, #1630)
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Wrong. Until Postfix has the equivalent of Milter, I stick with Sendmail.
With any luck sendmail will remain the default MTA, too, for at least the next year. Yes, Postfix is all around better and yes, sendmail will likely continue to have some security blips (for a while at least) but the bottom line is that sendmail is the backbone for email on the 'net. Just like bind for DNS. Would I like to see alturnatives replace these two old work horses? Sure. But not today.
Looking forward to Fedora Core 2
Why? Postfix is pretty much drop-in replaceable for sendmail. The first thing I do on any Red Hat or Fedora install is "up2date postfix; rpm -e sendmail". Sendmail 1. sucks, 2. sucks, and 3. really sucks. Why keep it around?Looking forward to Fedora Core 2
> Why? Postfix is pretty much drop-in replaceable for sendmailLooking forward to Fedora Core 2