From owner-freebsd-net Tue Apr 27 15:18:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from cortex.NSMA.Arizona.EDU (cortex.NSMA.Arizona.EDU [128.196.180.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D486A14D35 for ; Tue, 27 Apr 1999 15:18:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ddw@raphe.NSMA.Arizona.EDU) Received: from raphe (raphe [128.196.180.144]) by cortex.NSMA.Arizona.EDU (8.7.5/8.7.5) with ESMTP id PAA16094 for ; Tue, 27 Apr 1999 15:26:39 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <199904272226.PAA16094@cortex.NSMA.Arizona.EDU> To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Replacing Exchange Server In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 27 Apr 1999 21:56:17 +0200." <19990427215617.A67634@keltia.freenix.fr> Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 15:16:06 -0700 From: Doug Wellington Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Previously: >> It would appear that SendMail could do what I want [...] > >I'm somewhat biaised towards Postfix [...] How does postfix really compare to the other major MTA's? (Sendmail, exim, zmailer, and, my favorite, qmail.) If I remember correctly, postfix/vmailer is an update of smail, isn't it? The guy working on it right now (Weitse) is one of the Gods of the Internet, having created the tcp wrappers among other things. (But then again, the people working on the other packages aren't slouches either!) As a side note: sendmail isn't all that bad. On the Internet, it is used for more email than all the other MTA's put together. (In corporate America, it's quite a different story...) With the more recent versions configurable with m4, it is actually quite easy to set up, and there is a new commercial version available if you need that kind of accountability and support. If you want something good on a resume (for the non-corporate world), knowing sendmail is going to take you further than the others... >FreeBSD.org's experience with it in place of sendmail is pretty good, Postfix >is way faster and more secure than sendmail. Heehee, well, traditionally, almost anything has been faster and more secure than sendmail. That has changed and the new versions are quite good though... >BTW Outlook is not really a good Windows mail reader. What makes you say that? -Doug Doug Wellington ddw@nsma.arizona.edu Network and System Administrator ARL, Division of Neural Systems, Memory and Aging The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ I DON'T buy anything from spammers, and I KEEP TRACK OF WHO SPAMS ME. I put up with ads on the TV because they pay for programming. When spammers pay for the Internet, then I'll start putting up with spam. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message