Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 07:37:45 +0200 From: Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr> To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Replacing Exchange Server Message-ID: <19990428073745.A72846@keltia.freenix.fr> In-Reply-To: <199904272226.PAA16094@cortex.NSMA.Arizona.EDU>; from Doug Wellington on Tue, Apr 27, 1999 at 03:16:06PM -0700 References: <19990427215617.A67634@keltia.freenix.fr> <199904272226.PAA16094@cortex.NSMA.Arizona.EDU>
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According to Doug Wellington: > How does postfix really compare to the other major MTA's? (Sendmail, exim, > zmailer, and, my favorite, qmail.) If I remember correctly, postfix/vmailer Very nicely. I've been using sendmail for years (I'm also a beta tester of sendmail and am a former beta-teser of qmail) but Postfix just blow it away. Really. There are two real alternative to sendmail these days. Postfix and Qmail. Why not the other ones ? Just one reason: all the others use the same design as sendmail with a big monolithic setuid root binary. That makes them less secure and slower. > is an update of smail, isn't it? Absolutely not. It is a complete redesign in a modular way, à la qmail but better. It uses a inetd-like process (master) to manage all the other processes, giving a very secure and fast architecture. More details on the web site. No setuid binary at all. No process trusts the other. You have parallel delivery (but better than qmail's), header rewriting, header filtering, regex support for the same, has virtual domains, supports UUCP, has a very easy configuration file and too many other features to list :-) Smail on the other hand is still using a monolithic setuid root binary. > The guy working on it right now (Weitse) is > one of the Gods of the Internet, having created the tcp wrappers among other That's the one. > Heehee, well, traditionally, almost anything has been faster and more secure > than sendmail. That has changed and the new versions are quite good though.. Ask our postmaster (jmb) for the difference in speed between the two... > >BTW Outlook is not really a good Windows mail reader. > > What makes you say that? Lost of things. It doesn't deal with In-Reply-To: properly, doesn't generate References: at all IIRC, it is too easy to send HTML & UTF-8 crap, its quoting code is completely broken. Among others. -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 4.0-CURRENT #2: Fri Apr 16 22:37:03 CEST 1999 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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