Whats the best platform for running sendmail?
Generally speaking, I adhere to the old axiom that you should choose what software you want to run first, then choose the platform (hardware and OS) that best runs this software. By this token, if sendmail is the software, then a recent version of BSD Unix would probably be best, since sendmail was developed at UC Berkeley on BSD Unix. FreeBSD and BSD/OS are two known implementations of BSD Unix for Intel-based PC’s (among other hardware platforms), and this would make them the most “native” OSes for sendmail. FreeBSD is freely available by anonymous ftp or on CD-ROM, and BSD/OS is a commercial product. However, not everyone has this kind of “luxury”. If you’re on a homogeneous network (i.e., completely composed of only one type of hardware and OS), then you should probably be running the same OS as the rest of the machines on the network, regardless of the axiom stated above.
