Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 07:33:30 +0100 From: Len Conrad <LConrad@Go2France.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sendmail vs other MTAs Message-ID: <5.0.0.25.0.20010313072207.0204e120@mail.Go2France.com> In-Reply-To: <F415Ekfq79PtNEjVXGg00005b43@hotmail.com>
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>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
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