Why sendmail?

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 2006-09-02 13:25, Gerard Seibert <gerard at seibercom.net> wrote:
>On Saturday 02 September 2006 11:31, Atom Powers wrote:
>[...]
>> By making the Postfix port /not/ disable Sendmail it gives you the
>> ability to, more easily, run Sendmail *and* Postfix on the same
>> machine. ie it doesn't break your current configuation.
> 
> Why would I want Sendmail running in conjunction with a
> properly functioning Postfix installation? I can only imagine
> problems resulting from such a venture.

Testing, during a transition period?

Multiple MTA's serving two different sides of a network?

I'm not saying that this would be a terribly good idea for a
long-term setup, but there are cases where one may find it
slightly useful.