Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 13:02:29 +0100 From: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@bellavista.cz> To: sweetleaf <sweetleaf@myrealbox.com> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: need some advice on MTA Message-ID: <20030205120228.GU393@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> In-Reply-To: <3E4020A7.6030807@myrealbox.com> References: <3E4020A7.6030807@myrealbox.com>
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# sweetleaf@myrealbox.com / 2003-02-04 14:20:55 -0600:
> I am looking for an alternative MTA to replace sendmail on my freebsd
> 4.7-rel box. My question is i have searched google quite extensively and
> found :
>
> Qmail
> Courier
> Postfix
>
> I would like some opinions as to which of the 3 above is better in
> regards to security, authentication features, reliability, performance
> etc... and i guess which would be recommended for providing ./Maildir/
> accounts to about 200-300 people VIA Courier IMAP.
I run four Postfixes (one of them with Courier-IMAP), and one Qmail
with vpopmail.
Postfix is IMO easier to install and administer, but doesn't have a
point'n'click interface.
It also looks like Postfix is a much faster moving target than
Qmail, e. g. the virtual address/mailbox support has been evolving
quite a lot, and the configuration changed in Postfix-2.
I wouldn't recommend Courier; I don't know the SMTP part of the
pack, but the IMAP server is pretty admin-hostile in that it doesn't
log almost anything at all, so when you run into trouble, you're
left to guessing, and hacking the source.
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