Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 23:50:39 -0700 From: "Charles Burns" <burnscharlesn@hotmail.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Recommended MTA Message-ID: <F118NQptgFrYILoygXL00008812@hotmail.com>
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There was a post about this a few weeks ago (by me) The conclusions that I came up with based on help from this list and research elsewhere: Sendmail is good if you want to admin professionally, most Unix businesses use it. Qmail is probably the most secure, but isn't very good for computers with limited bandwidth as it doesn't parallelize transfers to the same server--they are all serialized. Postfix, which is used by FreeBSD.ORG, has a similar security model to Qmail (so is very secure) and is much more efficient with limited bandwidth. This is the one that I ended up choosing, but it may not be the absolute best. If you are looking for something technically superior by design, Sendmail is probably not it. Note that I am not an expert with MTAs, but I know how to research pretty well. Just my $0.02 Charles Burns >Ok, FreeBSD 4.4 includes Sendmail by default. > >I will be setting up a mail host and I am looking for recommendations on a >good MTA. Should I stick with Sendmail or go with one of the others? > >I know Sendmail, Postfix and Qmail are all good choices, but which one >should I invest my time and braincells into? I have to learn one, which >one >should it be? > >Thanks, > > > >_________________________________ > >Scott Gerhardt, P.Geo. >Gerhardt Information Technologies >_________________________________ > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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