Re: Help with setting up a pop server


Subject: Re: Help with setting up a pop server
From: Robert Vogt IV (robert@arborhost.com)
Date: Sun Aug 05 2001 - 15:21:42 MDT


> Also note that the "moves nearly 90% of the net's mail" thing is
> Sendmail, Inc. propaganda. The logic goes roughly like this:
> Zillions and zillions of computers on the Net have Sendmail
> installed, therefore it moves lots of mail.
>
> In reality the only reason there are lots of Sendmail installations
> is simply that so many Unix variants come with it installed by
> default; there are a lot of personal computers on the net with a
> disused Sendmail installation.
>
> The big ISP servers that actually do move 90% of the Net's mail tend
> to run whatever MTA the sysadmin decided was best for performance,
> security, and so forth, not whatever came with the operating system.
> From all I've heard Sendmail is far from the #1 choice for these
> servers.

        Agreed. Here at ArborHost, we use Postfix.

                        -Robert Vogt IV



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