From: Cami (camismweb.co.za)
Date: Wed Nov 02 2005 - 08:32:11 CST

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Covington, Chris wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 07:33:10PM -0600, /dev/rob0 wrote:
>> I don't think it's completely off topic to mention here that Sendmail X
>> has been released. It looks interesting ... well, it looks a lot like
>> Postfix, really. :) Congratulations to Claus A?mann and contributors.
>>
>> http://sendmail.org/sm-X/
>
> Is this a fork of sendmail or the next version? Why bother?

Its a new version from scratch.

> No I'm not
> trying to sound like a Postfix snob, just wondering why they didn't
> recommend a move to Postfix instead of designing something similar
> that's so incompatible with the existing userbase.

Like it or not, Sendmail will be around for a long
time. I'd rather see them trying to come up with a
new design instead of leaving the current (inferior)
version as is.

Cami

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