Re: Er.... for Sendmail users......

Arthur Corliss wrote:
>
> Each to their own. I would recommend for career growth purposes that
> everyone
> in IT learn sendmail. Just about every proprietary UNIX comes with it
> as well
> as the free ones, and I can't see any other MTA dethroning it as the
> industry
> standard in the next five years. At some point you will have to deal
> with it.
> Installing alternatives isn't always an option.
>
>
I agree with this. Even though I don't like sendmail I know it's out
there. It's the default MTA for Red Hat and CentOS. One of these days
I'll put up a sendmail box on my test network. Maybe there is a way I
can run two email servers. One for testing-linux.com and another for a
sub domain. Maybe.

Will sendmail still be the standard in the next 5 years? Well, Debian
defaults to Exim. Ubuntu doesn't install anything which means you get to
pick what you want. A lot of people are using Qmail.

As more small businesses bring email servers on-line we may see a rise
in Qmail installations. That's my guess anyway. I'm not a fan of Qmail
but they say it's easy to install. I won't install it though. It's not
flexible enough.

I need to work on getting virtual email accounts working under Postfix.
That's one more thing I need to add to the list of things I haven't
learned yet. Way to much to do and not time to do it.
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Received on Thu Aug 24 13:00:43 2006