Subject: Re: multiplying MTAs To: Mike Stone <> From: Pete
Naylor <> List: current-users Date: 07/26/2000 15:38:52 Mike
Stone wrote...  > > I was quite dismayed to find both sendmail
and postfix included in > > -current.  I can imagine arguments
for including one MTA, or none, but > > two of them?  Can
someone please explain the rationale behind this? > because
they're two different tools, intended for very different > uses.
sendmail is a very general MTA, intended to relay mail between >
systems that use god-knows-what for addressing and delivery >
mechanisms.   it's a glue utility.   postfix is an
RFC822-compliant SMTP > server, and nothing else.  I'm afraid I
disagree.  In common use sendmail fulfills the same function as
postfix, making the inclusion of both unjustified redundancy.  >
sendmail has been around forever, and most mailserver admins
have had to > become familiar with it at some point or another.
in recent years, > though, the proliferation of TCP/IP
networking and pure-SMTP email > network