Re: [OT] Dns servers

[wietse@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Wietse Venema)]

Tony Earnshaw:
> Oh, and the alternative to "the bloat of Sendmail" seems to be Postfix, on
> most +n+x systems now days.

Caution: Postfix without TLS and IPv6 is already several times
bigger than Sendmail was at the time Postfix was released (this is
source line count without comments). Postfix has tripled in size
since the initial public release.

The "bloat of Postfix" is mostly in

- extension mechanisms such as lookup tables, policy delegation
and content filtering,

- optional services such as session caching, address verification
database, and anvil rate control.

You can turn most of that stuff off (or even remove executables)
and never have to worry about it.

	Wietse