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On Fri, 2 Jul 2010, Simon Waters wrote:
Gordon Henderson wrote:I also compile my own apache, php, MySQL, sendmail and 1 or 2 other minor things too, but that's another story... ;-)Sounds insanely inefficient to me - but I guess people have the choice.
A long time ago I used to maintain many different unix and unix-like systems and in those days you had no choice. I also wanted consistency over config-file locations and so on over all the platforms I was maintaining. I just stuck with that method. I don't think it's a big deal. Bit like compiling a kernel - my strategy is to only enable the absolute minimum of options required for the task in hand.
I have also been asked for very specific versions of them by customers in the past (who were migrating from versions running under Win2K!), being able to offer that won me the job...
And I guess for as long as you just compile sendmail and don't actually use it as an MTA you won't get bitten by the bugs as often.
I've been using it since the early 1990's. I've no plans to change. In all that time, I've never been bitten by any of it's bugs. Things did get a lot better after about 1997 though - we can thank the spammers for that. Today, it runs on all my servers and PBXs - 100's of them and I have no issues with it whatsoever.
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