From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 12 22:35:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mgw1.MEIway.com (mgw1.meiway.com [212.73.210.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4B1B37B718 for ; Mon, 12 Mar 2001 22:35:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from LConrad@Go2France.com) Received: from sv.Go2France.com (sv.meiway.com [212.73.210.79]) by mgw1.MEIway.com (Postfix Relay Hub) with ESMTP id 1077916B1E for ; Tue, 13 Mar 2001 07:47:31 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: <5.0.0.25.0.20010313072207.0204e120@mail.Go2France.com> X-Sender: lconrad%Go2France.com@mail.Go2France.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0 Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 07:33:30 +0100 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Len Conrad Subject: Re: sendmail vs other MTAs In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >Hello. I've been using FreeBSD for 4 months. What are your opinions >on sendmail compared to the other MTAs like postfix,qmail, etc. on >FreeBSD. Which one is more stable, easy to configure, secure, etc. ? I've never had any pb's with postfix, even the paint-is-wet experimental/snapshot versions. It's apparently very easy to configure vs learning sendmail or qmail. postfix's website has tons of doc, there are good readme's and sample configs delivered with the source package, and the man pages are extensive. Does all that up to a spoon-feeding tutorial? no, but the info is there, is well written. There are one or two books coming out soon. The postfix user's mailing list is of reasonable volume and has very some very expert, helpful users, including the developer himself, daily. postfix has sendmail compatibility. FreeBSD.org's running postfix; see this delivery header: Received: from hub.freebsd.org (hub.freebsd.org [216.136.204.18]) by mx2.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP I chose postfix for my IMGate project (originally aimed at NT users) since it was so easy comparatively to configure. Just one main config file, and then several simple "table" lookup files. And the product has picked up important new features in the 12+ months I've been using it. Len http://MenAndMice.com/DNS-training : DNS training for USA and Europe http://BIND8NT.MEIway.com : Binary for ISC BIND 8.2.3 for NT4 & W2K http://IMGate.MEIway.com : Build free, hi-perf, anti-spam mail gateways To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message