From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 10 19:32:01 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B05D106564A for ; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:32:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lgusenet@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from mail3.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail3.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.5]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EAF918FC08 for ; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:32:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 30826 invoked from network); 10 Mar 2010 19:32:00 -0000 Received: from dsl092-078-145.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO be-well.ilk.org) ([66.92.78.145]) (envelope-sender ) by mail3.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 10 Mar 2010 19:32:00 -0000 Received: by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix, from userid 1147) id 25A7C50886; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:31:59 -0500 (EST) From: Lowell Gilbert To: "Steven Hartland" References: <1AE2F4B0675743BAB0C54954FBA787CA@multiplay.co.uk> Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:31:59 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1AE2F4B0675743BAB0C54954FBA787CA@multiplay.co.uk> (Steven Hartland's message of "Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:47:57 -0000") Message-ID: <444okoc6s0.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:40:32 +0000 Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: To sendmail or to postfix that is the question? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:32:01 -0000 "Steven Hartland" writes: > A few key question come to mind:- > 1. Has sendmail's config moved away from the black art > it once was? Somewhat. The configurations are done with m4 these days, but there's a lot of black magic possible with the many potential combinations of features and options. > 2. Is postfix that much easier? Yes. However, the black magic in sendmail is very powerful. > 3. What would people use for: > 3.1. POP / IMAP support? Separate problem. I use dovecot and I like it, but it's just a household server. > 3.2. Web Mail? I don't do that, because I don't want to go to the effort of making sure it is and stays secure, but from what I hear I'd probably try squirrelmail first if I were doing it. > 3.2. AV / Spam filtering? I use spamassassin. You can plug most other analyzers into it.