On Friday, 17 October 2008 at 15:13, Les Mikesell wrote:
Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
i've just wondered why sendmail is still the default MTA in Fedora. Please enlighten me?
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the milter capability lets you extend it with features that don't share the full permissions of the main process yet can interact in real time during delivery.
Milter is supported by alternatives too
They pretend to, but won't actually run complex milters like MimeDefang.
Postfix will: http://www.mimedefang.org/kwiki/index.cgi?Milter ... Milter and Postfix
The Postfix MTA implemented partial Milter support in version 2.3 and more complete support in 2.4. See http://www.postfix.org/MILTER_README.html for details. MIMEDefang 2.63 works with Postfix. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Not that I particularly want to shoot ambulances, but those are not good arguments.
Sorry, but I don't see any counterargument here. The alternatives are all worse.
Postfix is not worse. I'd argue that's it's better in every respect, but I guess you wouldn't listen anyway and I'm a bit short on time.
Regards, R.