Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 23:50:54 -0600 From: Andrew Hesford <ajh3@chmod.ath.cx> To: BSD Blood <bsdblood@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sendmail vs other MTAs Message-ID: <20010311235053.A45379@cec.wustl.edu> In-Reply-To: <F415Ekfq79PtNEjVXGg00005b43@hotmail.com>; from bsdblood@hotmail.com on Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 03:50:17AM -0000 References: <F415Ekfq79PtNEjVXGg00005b43@hotmail.com>
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I use Postfix. I'm not really sure why, but it might be because the guys in #FreeBSD/irc.openproject.net recommend it. Configuration is definitely easier than with Sendmail. However, the easiest server I've ever configured was Exim. That's worth a look if ease of use is your primary concern. The Postfix overview (at www.postfix.org) says that Postfix is a direct competitor to qmail (he makes a point of saying competitor, not enemy), with its primary goals being speed, security and ease of use. An interesting feature of postfix is that it is actually composed of many different daemons. For example, one manages the queue, another smtp connections and data transfer, one to deliver mail, and some others. I imagine this results in a performance increase, since various parts of the mail system can be parallelized. However, if you have a really large mail system, you might need the FreeBSD kernel to allow more running processes at one time. I think one advantage of Postfix is that it runs well in a distributed mail system, although I wouldn't know, because I only have a single server. On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 03:50:17AM -0000, BSD Blood wrote: > 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 need to decide > which one to use as my SMTP server. I have little experience with sendmail, > but I don't really like it because I find it too difficult to configure and > there are just too much documentation to read. -- Andrew Hesford ajh3@chmod.ath.cx To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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