Running own mail server

[Kurt Wall]

On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 05:18:35PM -0500, Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Sat, 4 Nov 2006 03:07:05 +1100
> Steffen Kluge <kluge at dotnet.org> wrote:
> 
> > Switch to postfix right now
> 
> I've seen this advice many times, and I find it easy to believe that
> postfix is better, having run screaming from sendmail config files
> in the past, but when I recently went to read up a bit on postfix,
> the very first thing I read on the home page is:
> 
> >Postfix attempts to be fast, easy to administer, and secure,
> >while at the same time being sendmail compatible enough to not
> >upset existing users.  
> 
> If it is sendmail compatible, doesn't that mean it has the same
> config file that can be used to frighten little children?

No. The behavior is compatible. The configuration is sane.


> I'd be far more attracted to postfix if the homepage said it was
> in no way remotely similar to sendmail :-).

Except that *lots* of (arguable broken) programs call sendmail directly,
so having something that behaves like sendmail honors the principle of
least surprise.

Kurt