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On Mon, 8 Mar 2004, Grant Goodyear wrote: |
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> As far as bloat |
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> goes, the mailwrapper binary is about 7K in size. Now one could |
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> reasonably argue that any unnecessary programs on the system constitute |
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> unwelcome bloat, but in this case I believe that the flexibility that a |
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> /usr/sbin/sendmail wrapper offers more than makes up for it. I suspect |
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> that I'm not the only Gentoo user who has wanted to try qmail or exim |
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> but never has because switching MTAs on Gentoo has always meant |
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> unmerging the already-working MTA. |
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Note: The following comes from the perspective of someone running a |
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Gentoo system with only a 2G harddrive. |
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Agreed, although, as I've only worked with Gentoo for a brief while, the |
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block has more been the fact that the various non-sendmail MTAs I've |
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looked into all install their sendmail compatibility code along with |
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their own binaries, regardless of the installer's desire, unless a fair |
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amount of effort is put in to prevent that. |
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As I'm not ready to switch, that translates to me not being ready to |
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try, because to try is to switch. |
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This would remove that problem. |
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That being said, I can't conceive of anything which would compel me to |
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install a gratuitously standards non-conforming SMTP server. |
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Ed Grimm |
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