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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!news.seinf.abb.se!nooft.abb.no!Norway.EU.net!EU.net!ieunet!not-for-mail From: nick@Ireland.EU.net (Nick Hilliard) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: A Serious article for the FreeBSD support group Date: 27 Jun 1996 17:19:35 +0100 Organization: The Flapjack Factory Lines: 28 Message-ID: <4qucan$8kk@news.Ieunet.ie> References: <4qcqts$t61@tzlink.j51.com> <4qk717$9hc@uriah.heep.sax.de> <4qrkv7$53h@hops.entertain.com> <4qrvun$ai8@synge.maths.tcd.ie> NNTP-Posting-Host: news.ieunet.ie X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] David Malone (dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie) said: : >There has GOT to be a better way! I for one am willing to dump the : >old sendmail for a completely new (and incompatible) email paradigm! : There is smail, mmdf and pp which are all alternatives. David, <shock and disbelief> You aren't seriously suggesting that PP is a realistic mailer??!!? It's truly elephantine, buggy, slow, neurotic and does *horrible* things to emails. It also believes that RFC822 email is just a different form of X.400. (Take a look at 'top' on granuaile to get an idea how bad it really is for hogging the system) </shock and disbelief> Friends don't let friends use PP. PP really *is* Harmful. MMDF has a lot of really nice ideas, but it's also got a number of peculiar bugs and is showing its age quite badly at this stage. It doesn't support ESMTP or 8-bit mail, but its queueing system has a lot going for it. Smail is ok for small sites and UUCP, but crap for handling medium to large volumes of SMTP mail. The original poster might want to look at qmail or zmailer. Nick (stuck maintaining mmdf, pp, smail and sendmail :-/ )