Sendmail or not sendmail

[Jonathan Hutchins]

On Friday 01 August 2003 3:27 am, mike neuliep wrote:

> really don't want to totally relearn an MTA after I've invested so much
> into sendmail after all these years. 

Looking at that statement, and considering how true it is of most competent 
linux administrators - ie that they know sendmail pretty well and can run it 
reliably in their sleep, given that this implies that documentation, help 
files, auxilliary programs and functions and _their_ documentation and 
helpfiles are all going to have a preponderance of not just information, but 
well informed, thought-out, debugged information on sendmail, and I think 
you've answered your question.

"Yeah, the kid can manage qmail, but not many people can, and if you loose the 
kid you could be in trouble."

I think I saw one link to a performance review go by in this otherwise wildly 
flaming thread.  You're going to have to search on-line for things like that, 
possibly talk with someone from one of the big providers like IBM to get any 
calm, unpolitical performance analysis comparing sendmail to it's 
competitors.

Admittedly, sheer momentum is the reason most systems run sendmail, not any 
technical superiority, but the fact remains that most do.