sendmail vs postfix (Was: bounced fro Ubuntu user)

[Michael Haney]

On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 3:55 AM, Amedee Van Gasse (ub)
<amedee-ubuntu at amedee.be> wrote:
> On Sun, July 18, 2010 14:03, Chris Rees wrote:
>
>> Why am I the only person on Earth to use sendmail? Even other FreeBSD
>> geeks tend to use Postfix....
>
> Why? Because sendmail is one large monolithic program that does
> everything. That's easier to share data between different parts of the
> system, but also easier to frak up. Postfix otoh is based on cooperating
> processes that run on demand and perform specific tasks. Very flexible,
> but sometimes you need to make a flowchart to understand what you are
> doing.
>
> That's my reason. Other people probably pick postfix because sendmail is
> notoriously difficult to configure. Or simply because their distro has
> decided for them.
>

Back when a friend of mine ran his own server that shared bandwidth on
a co-locator he used to do administration for, he used qmail because
it was more secure than sendmail.  Whenever he remotely connected to
the machine from home he'd always use SSH rather than regular telnet,
and he ever used Webmin via HTTPS.

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