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[Chris Adams]

Once upon a time, Chris Ricker <kaboom at gatech.edu> said:
> On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Chris Adams wrote:
> > Don't get rid of sendmail unless you've got something to replace it.
> > Last I looked, postfix cannot replace sendmail on my servers, although
> > it is a lot better than qmail (gag!).
> 
> Out of curiosity, why not?

Milter is probably the biggest reason at the moment.  I filter 1000
spams a minute with a multi-server setup using milter (sendmail is
running on several servers and the milter server is on another server).

Also, I have some heavily tuned custom configs.  Can postfix allow
multiple DNSBLs to be merged into one (with different response code) to
cut down on DNS requests, and allow some to reject before RCPT TO and
some after?

I also know of people that still use UUCP.

> Postfix is a viable alternative to sendmail with a much better security
> history and architecture. These other projects don't have secure usable
> replacements.

There's plenty of other web servers and there are a couple of other SSH
servers IIRC.

There've only been a few problems with sendmail in recent years, and
those have been found by people examining the code closer than ever.  I
think that sendmail is one of the more scrutinized pieces of code
around.

-- 
Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.