On Sat, 2004-10-30 at 19:01 -0400, Tom Diehl wrote:
On Sun, 31 Oct 2004, Mircea MITU wrote:
> You're right, those are silly reasons. But I, for one, I see two major
> reasons to make this switch, from sendmail to postfix as the MTA of
> choice:
>
> 1. SANS Top Vulnerabilities, U5. Mail Transport Service
>
http://www.sans.org/top20/#u5
>
> 2. The very first thing done by the almost all the people I know after a
> RH/Fedora install, is rpm -e sendmail
>
> I really wonder how many subscribers are still using Sendmail.
It does not matter how many subscribers on this list are still using Sendmail.
I too am one of the people who does -sendmail +postfix in my kickstart configs
but remember Red Hat has to support RHEL and I will be the majority of RHEL
customers migrating from things like slowaris expect sendmail. A lot of these
people are old farts that have been around for a hundred years and do not
like to change things they are comfortable with. Like it or not we are most
likely stuck with sendmail forever.
No offense meant, but let's cut the crap. I did bring some RHEL
customers to RH by migrating them from NT/2k and I had no complains from
the old farts about Exchange missing.
Companies do not migrate from Solaris to RHEL due to 0-changes in the
default install. The business pressure to minimize costs, conformance to
some standards and audits and/or overall performance are the relevant
factors for platform migrations or non-migrations.
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