At 02:15 AM 2/2/2001 +0530, Binand Raj S. wrote:
I haven't used qmail ever, but I hear it does a lot of things. Sendmail does one thing - that of transporting mails to the recipient. Once upon a time, I was taught that the philosophy of Unix is that a program should do one thing, and do that one thing reliably. In this respect I feel sendmail does what is expected of it admirably. It doesn't even try to deliver mails - it calls a specialised program designed for mail delivery (procmail) to do that.
Sendmail insists on running as root. No matter how many issues have been found of late, I'm not trusting anything that accepts external connections while running as root. Plus support programs like newaliases are a sym-link to the sendmail binary. Yuck!
Given the choice between sendmail and qmail, I'll take qmail without thinking at all. But if exim or postfix were on the menu too, maybe I'll reconsider.
-- Kiran Jonnalagadda www.pobox.com/~jace