From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 10 1:36: 4 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from web12504.mail.yahoo.com (web12504.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.173.196]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 57BA337B402 for ; Thu, 10 Jan 2002 01:36:01 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <20020110093601.30237.qmail@web12504.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [216.250.215.7] by web12504.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 10 Jan 2002 01:36:01 PST Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 01:36:01 -0800 (PST) From: david lubowa Reply-To: deez_diablo@excite.com Subject: Re: whichis better postfix or horde/imp To: Brent , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <003a01c1993a$f3314590$d02b82d0@Misterb> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="0-434053738-1010655361=:27934" 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 --0-434053738-1010655361=:27934 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Well to my belief sendmail has improved on it's security it is not as vulnerable as it was before so it can still be used as a reliable MTA. I have recently changed one of my mail servers from sendmail to postfix and postfix has almost the same setup as sendmail so you wont really get lost when trying to configure it , and another thing with postfix is that it easier to configure and trouble shoot i guess ( i havent yet trouble shot it yet..but i have heard it is easier to trouble shoot) i still have a mail server running sendmail see i am abit sceptical when changing MTA's cause i have put in alot of effort in trying to understand sendmail..not that i have conquered it but , i know that when i install a distro ..i will have an MTA i am used to installed by default so ..i will start tweaking it as soon as possible. okie enough of my philosphy ..and for a webmail App horde/imp is not that bad ...but truthfully speaking i am not a big fan of it ..i currently run squirrelmail for webmail and it works fine for me ...!! but everyone has there own opinion on things .....so i guess the ball is in your court and for howtos ...i suggest you hit the sites of these Apps you shall get all the info you need on them and maybe join there mailing lists just to be on the safe side and get the pros and cons of the Apps Brent wrote: im cuurently running sendmail on my 4.3 FBSD box ...and ive had no issures thank god...but with all the talk of sendmail being full of exploits or work arounds for rulesets....is there a better mail package out there ...Ive been wanting to go to a webmail type of mail hence ive looked int o horde & impwhich appears to be nice ....ive also heard good things about postfix mail ...which is better ...and where are the how to's ?? :-) Thanx for any and all help Brent --------------------------------- Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail. --0-434053738-1010655361=:27934 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii

Well  to my belief sendmail has improved on it's security it is not as vulnerable as it was before so it can still be used as a reliable MTA. I have recently changed one of my  mail servers from sendmail to postfix and postfix has almost the same setup as sendmail so you wont really get lost when trying to configure it , and another thing with postfix is that it easier to configure and trouble shoot i guess ( i havent yet trouble shot it yet..but i have heard it is easier to trouble shoot) i still have a mail server running sendmail see i am abit sceptical when changing MTA's cause i have put in alot of effort in trying to understand sendmail..not that i have conquered it but , i know that when i install a distro ..i will have an MTA i am used to installed by default so ..i will start tweaking it as soon as possible. okie enough of my philosphy ..and for a webmail App horde/imp is not that bad ...but truthfully speaking i am not a big fan of it ..i currently run squirrelmail for webmail and it works fine for me ...!! but everyone has there own opinion on things .....so i guess the ball is in your court and for howtos ...i suggest you hit the sites of these  Apps  you shall get all the info you need on them and maybe join there mailing lists just to be on the safe side and get the pros and cons of the Apps

  Brent <misterb@cybertours.com> wrote:

im cuurently running sendmail on my 4.3 FBSD box ...and ive had no issures thank god...but with all the talk of sendmail being full of exploits
or work arounds for rulesets....is there a better mail package out there ...Ive been wanting to go to  a webmail type of mail  hence ive looked int o horde & imp
which appears to be nice ....ive also heard good things about postfix mail ...which is better ...
and where are the how to's ??  :-)
 
Thanx for any and all  help
Brent
 


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