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Re: Free mail server: sendmail vs qmail

Marco Bambini wrote:
>
>MacOS X Server includes sendmail as default mail server but I think that
>qmail is much more powerful, easy to set up and easy to administer than
>sendmail.
>
>So my question is, why Apple includes sendmail with OS X Server?
>The best server (like OS X) should have the best mail server, so why not qmail?

Since about 70% of the Internet's email moves with sendmail, it is
arguably the most flexible and robust. It is a part of the BSD UNIX
distribution upon which Apple's flavor of UNIX is partially based.

John

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