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Why do you use Sendmail and not other MTAs?
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In general, we prefer Sendmail over other MTAs because

- Sendmail is widely-used on the Internet
- Sendmail is included in many distributions by default
- security vulnerabilities are quickly discovered and fixed
- Sendmail is backed by a company which takes care of maintenance, support and further development
- at the time we developed the first version of OpenEMM's commercial brother EMM (in 1999) Qmail was unusable for our purposes and Postfix was in its infancy

Sendmail is difficult to replace in OpenEMM by other MTAs because

- spool files can easily be generated directly (the process is documented) - therefore, OpenEMM can assign spool file names so that OpenEMM has sufficient ID information encoded to use the names for bounce management during mail transmission

- bounce management is based on a well documented plugin interface of Sendmail (milter) and permits combining the realibility of Sendmail with the flexibility of OpenEMM functions.
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  1. Comment #1 (Posted by Brenton )
    I understand your preference as a company, but it should still be an option for the customer. As there is no support for postfix, I cannot purchase this product for my clients.
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