[zomgwtfbbqGEEK] Mail Server Selection Made Easy, by lwood

[lwood]

Meanwhile, somewhere where geeks were lunching...

$some_guy: "And then you just reconfigure sendmail..."

lwood: "Sendmail? Ew! Ptui!"

$some_guy: "Sendmail is nice! Sendmail Is Your Friend!"

lwood: "Sendmail? Sendmail is not my friend. Postfix is my friend! Sendmail is the high school crush with whom I had an acrimonious breakup. I know he exists, I try to forget about him, but like a bad penny, he just keeps turning up."

*pause*

lwood: "By this logic, QMail is the funny little weirdo mouthbreather who smells like cat pee. Also, his momma dresses him funny."

$some_guy then tries to say something about how sendmail's config file m4 nightmare is Not That Bad, Really, but he's got no traction here.

Postfix and lwood, BFF.

-- Lorrie

Comments

[ivy]

Hahahahaha! I agree entirely. I'm a Postfix girl too. ravenblack *loved* qmail; I never understood it. We tolerated each other when we used to share a server, but when we split and he digitally moved out, Postfix five seconds later.

[lwood.livejournal.com]

Well, with an MTA conflict like that, you know it couldn't last...

-- Lorrie

[gconnor.livejournal.com]

This. This is awesome. Thank you.

[lwood.livejournal.com]

*grin* Thank you!

-- Lorrie

[digitalsidhe.livejournal.com]

I'll take Qmail over Sendmail any day of the week. I think Qmail is, indeed, a funny-looking weirdo... but he doesn't smell of cat pee, and he does have some hidden talent, like being a great cook. Whereas the guy from high school has really never matured emotionally beyond that point, and is not ready for real adult company.

Still, Postfix FTW.

[lwood.livejournal.com]

QMail has its strong suits, sure--but stuff djb has done just rubs me the wrong way.

-- Lorrie

[arc-stormcrow.livejournal.com]

::cackles:: I'm glad I wasn't drinking anything when I read that. :D

[lwood.livejournal.com]

*snicker*

[gnowun.livejournal.com]

Having had to wade through and edit sendmail configs before, I could not agree more that just about ANY alternative is an improvement.

[lwood.livejournal.com]

*snicker*

Now, exim might be a decent fellow; my only experience with it has been to remove it in favor of postfix...

-- Lorrie