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Subject: Re: Sendmail --> PostFix conversion
From: Harry (mail-nanofizbin.com)
Date: Tue Sep 19 2000 - 17:47:52 CDT

on 9/19/00 12:26 PM, Brad Knowles at blkskynet.be wrote:

> I'm looking at <http://www.postfix.org/>, and I'm not seeing this term.

Brad, I'm convinced that you are adept in researching materials, but I would
have taken your word for it right after the above sentence - the additional
multiple paragraphs of additional cut-n-paste were not necessary.

Mea culpa in recalling the site content improperly, as I originally recalled
the site using the term 'drop-in', but it's just as possible that this was a
term used in an evangelical newsgroup discussing it. Regardless, I also did
not use the term 'identical' anywhere, as that is what you based your
earlier lecture on.

> Looking at <http://www.postfix.org/faq.html>, I don't find the
> term "drop-in" anywhere on the page. In fact, I went so far as to
> set up a complete mirror of the entire postfix web site, just so that
> I could grep through all the available pages for the term "drop-in".
> I didn't find it anywhere.

Your dilligence is admirable, but as I said earlier, the first sentence was
enough.
 
> In short, I don't know where you got this idea that postfix was a
> 100% complete perfect drop-in replacement for sendmail

You know, I don't know where YOU got it, as I didn't use the terminology you
just used, nor would your counter-argument work without stretching this into
the extreme, as you seem to be doing here - come on, we're all reasonably
intelligent adults, so this kind of spouting and posing is not really
necessary.

My point was that a seamless conversion from a sendmail installation to a
Postfix installation is not as easy as a newbie might be led to believe, and
quite realistically, this is probably keeping some people from adopting it
that otherwise might do so.

> The key thing that is so cool about postfix is that it is
> generally useful right out-of-the-box. You don't have to make any
> configuration changes (or hardly any) to get it to work reasonably
> well.

That I will agree, and that is something that has attracted me originally to
it. I set up a Mandrake box, and was able to set up a local MTA in roughly
10 minutes, and it worked well, and quickly. At this point, I would like to
convert an existing sendmail installation over, but would prefer not to risk
interruption of service.
 
> and the features it has, and then you can cut it over to be your
> primary mail service, while you continue to keep sendmail running as
> the backup.

That is probably what I might end up doing once I'm ready to configure that.
 
> You are free to interpret that statement however you like.

That response pretty much qualifies it that I wasn't so far off...
 
> Regardless, some level of reality has to be injected into the
> situation, and you should consider yourself lucky that I was in a
> good mood today, and decided to be as humorous as I could when doing
> so.

Oh....joy...

Seriously, this kind of posturing is not necessary.

Harry