We have infrastructure based on and supported by sendmail. I know that postfix does "everything" sendmail does ... but we have a lot of experience and history related to the Solaris version of Sendmail (and yes it is different from the one from sendmail.org)
_IF_ you really want postfix to be there can we make it an alternative in the same way as network/physical:nwam and network/physical:default so as not to break compatibility, but add extra features? Jon On 26 January 2011 09:34, Christopher Chan <christopher.c...@bradbury.edu.hk> wrote: > On Wednesday, January 26, 2011 03:32 PM, Mark wrote: >> >>> >>> Postfix is probably the easiest drop-in replacement. But IMO >>> a packaging of it should get lots of testing before going into >>> a stable distro, and regardless of which is eventually the >>> default or preferred choice, both should remain available. >>> >>> >> >> I did poke around at this, but found that the fmd smtp notification uses >> sendmail, and has a dependancy on it, so I put the effort into getting >> fmd working via snmp instead. > > postfix will handle that just fine. It is just a packaging issue. > > >> >> I'm probably biased, having had to hire a "sendmail expert" for a week >> to create a complex email routing server with Solaris, that I later >> replaced with postfix myself in an afternoon (on Centos). > > Not keen on reading and writing sendmail rulesets? Yeah, me neither. > Forgetting to use tabs just makes you go bonkers later. > > >> >> I'm a fan of the minimal "fries with that" OS approach, and then clip in >> your favourite packages. > > Well, sendmail would be minimal...you'd have to patch it to be mysql table > lookup support for example while postfix will just require enabling to get > mysql/pgsql/pcre lookups...maybe too fancy for some. > > >> >> I'm about to "update" a 40Tb snv_134 storage server to OpenIndiana. >> >> I've migrated the data already, and there is a considerable difference >> in setup around networking and zfs ACL's especially with sharing >> filesystems with both nfs and smb. > > > I guess using samba means that I will miss out on that kind of stuff. But I > don't see considerable difference in networking unless you are talking about > nwam or more features... > > _______________________________________________ > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
