Sendmail still default?

[Les Mikesell]

seth vidal wrote:
>
>>>> And did anyone have an actual problem with sendmail other than noticing 
>>>> it taking time to start the daemon in the boot sequence.  That's a 
>>>> problem that can be solved on its own since you don't really need a 
>>>> daemon then.
>>>>
>>>> Removing mail from the expected services is just the wrong thing to do, 
>>>> especially if the reasoning is that the service isn't understood or used 
>>>> to advantage.  Add a setup for a root alias in firstboot and a mail 
>>>> notifier in the gnome panel to make the system more useful instead of less.
>>>>
>>> I never said anything about removing mail. I only said that making
>>> postfix the default doesn't mean losing functionality.
>> It would have been earlier, but if in fact the current version is 
>> capable of running MimeDefang as a milter maybe they are finally equivalent.
>>
> 
> for a couple of years now:
> 
> http://advosys.ca/viewpoints/2006/08/postfix-supports-milter/
> 

Supporting the milter interface and actually running existing milters 
that expect sendmail on the other side are two different things.  For 
example, milters may need to know if the connection is authenticated or 
using SSL.  If you are going to claim sendmail compatibility or be a 
functional replacement you have to provide the same information, the 
same way whether it was described in the interface documentation or not. 
Postfix pre-2.4 didn't.  It looks like it does now, but I still don't 
remember any mentions of people actually using it on the MimeDefang
list.

And in any case, using MimeDefang as a sendmail milter eliminates most 
of the complaints anyone would have with sendmail itself since it lets 
you do the complex parts with control handled in perl instead of 
sendmail's internal language.


-- 
    Les Mikesell
     lesmikesell at gmail.com