why sendmail and not postfix?

[David Kistner]

Fulvio wrote:

>qmail is fantastic. Postfix is simple to configure
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>>>why sendmail and not postfix?
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>>qmail works very well on Fedora.  My Fedora/qmail mail server has been 
>>running for a few weeks now and performs well.
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I'm a newbie at running my own mail server (and pretty new to Linux).  I 
really liked the Fedora/qmail combination due to the strong help 
available through their respective lists/newsgroups.  I realize that 
qmail is not open source but it is free.  It is easy to use.  I'm told 
that it is highly secure.  I was just looking for something easy to use 
with Fedora.  There is an outstanding helpful web site called "Life With 
Qmail" at http://lifewithqmail.org/ that I used for help.  I also picked 
up a great "how to" book for administration called "The qmail Handbook" 
by Dave Sill that is really handy.  When I've had newbie questions I 
posted them on the list/newsgroup site and more than once the author of 
the book, Dave Sill, personally took the time to answer my questions -- 
I'd never experienced anything quite like that before -- it was better 
than any level of "paid support" I've ever encountered with any Windows 
based products.   Dave Sill's site describes the license situation as 
follows:

"The bottom line is that you *can* use /qmail/ for any purpose, you can 
redistribute /unmodified/ /qmail/ source distributions and qualifying 
/var-qmail/ binary distributions, and you can distribute patches to 
/qmail/. You *can't* distribute modified /qmail/ source code or 
non-/var-qmail/ binary distributions."

That seemed good enough for my situation although open source would be 
better.  I'm sure all of the mail servers discussed here today are 
exceptional.  I just wanted to put my 2 cents worth in on my personal 
experience with qmail.