SUSE 9.0 mumblings

[Matthew Carpenter]

Hey David-

Just a note that Postfix has the functionality of "virtusertable" and "genericstable" but calls it "canonical" and "sender-canonical".  It took me a couple swings to hit that one but once you find it game's over.  Can't comment on the Milter though.  I know that you've mentioned it quite a bit, but never played with it myself.  My choice of Postfix over Sendmail was a difficult one, but since I'm supporting the BigBlock Server appliances as systems for the common man, Postfix's english configs made it a choice that's difficult to pass up.  While most of the system can be maintained through Webmin for both MTA's Postfix allows me to set and unset things like RBL's through a GUI. For Sendmail I would have had to instruct the "common man" on the use of m4, something I'd rather not write.  Postfix does use enhanced filters above and beyond the original type but I don't know if they can be run during the connection.

Still, I can't bash on Sendmail.  Just another great choice.

On Mon, 22 Dec 2003 07:55:25 -0500
"David A. Bandel" <david at pananix.com> wrote:

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> On Sun, 21 Dec 2003 20:28:19 -0800
> Collins <erichey2 at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> [snip]
> 
> > 
> > OTOH, I believe that X and sendmail were both created by the same
> > bunch in the depths of an acid trip.  I can't get around using X, but
> > I sure don't have to put up with sendmail <g>..
> 
> Well, after running sendmail for around 15 years, I can't see using
> anything else.  Tried Postfix once.  After 3 days I gave up trying to
> get it to run more than the primary domain (easily done w/
> virtuser/generics in sendmail - one server of mine has over 30 e-mail
> domains on it).  And now with milter, I won't change (unless the others
> come out with a milter-like facility).  I run spamassassin,
> milter-sender, and more via milter.   Takes a _lot_ less resources than
> running via procmail and there's stuff you just can't do with procmail
> you can with milter, like reject a mail back before it's been accepted. 
> Procmail can't do that because before procmail gets a mail it has to
> have been accepted by sendmail.  Milter works _during_ the delivery
> phase before closing the connection with the sending host.
> 
> Ciao,
> 
> David A. Bandel
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