Why is sendmail bad?
Josh Boyer
jwboyer at jdub.homelinux.org
Sat Feb 26 17:14:27 UTC 2005
On Sat, 2005-02-26 at 09:00 -0800, Kenneth Porter wrote:
> --On Thursday, February 24, 2005 5:41 PM -0600 Josh Boyer
> <jwboyer at jdub.homelinux.org> wrote:
>
> > Eventually. I was in a situation where I switched ISPs and didn't have
> > an email address anymore. I hate hotmail, and didn't have access to
> > gmail yet. So, I got a mail server running as fast as I could. _Then_
> > I learned more about it.
>
> Note that that's another argument for relegating *all* the MTA's to Extras
> and shipping a dirt-simple SMTP pass-through that does little more than
> proxy local mail requests to the ISP or company server.
Not really. My ISP gives me a line and an IP address. That's it. I
don't have access to any of their mail servers. So I needed an MTA that
could both send and receive on it's own, and not proxy through anything.
josh
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