From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 5 4: 2:44 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AA2F37B401 for ; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 04:02:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.bellavista.cz (mail.bellavista.cz [62.168.44.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D5EF43FCD for ; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 04:02:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from neuhauser@bellavista.cz) Received: from freepuppy.bellavista.cz (freepuppy.bellavista.cz [10.0.0.10]) by mail.bellavista.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id D95612F9; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 13:02:29 +0100 (CET) Received: by freepuppy.bellavista.cz (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 276202FDC6D; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 13:02:29 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 13:02:29 +0100 From: Roman Neuhauser To: sweetleaf Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: need some advice on MTA Message-ID: <20030205120228.GU393@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> Mail-Followup-To: sweetleaf , freebsd-questions References: <3E4020A7.6030807@myrealbox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3E4020A7.6030807@myrealbox.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG # 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. -- If you cc me or remove the list(s) completely I'll most likely ignore your message. see http://www.eyrie.org./~eagle/faqs/questions.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message