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From: "Scott Gerhardt" <scott@gerhardt-it.com>
To: "Ryan Thompson" <ryan@sasknow.com>
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Subject: RE: Recommended MTA
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 10:31:14 -0600
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Thanks for your insightful comments guys!

Looks like I will be buying a good Postfix book :-) Any recommendations?

Seems like the general consensus is that Sendmail is good to learn from a
career/posterity perspective, but Postfix is the more likely choice for
manageability and support.

	- Scott




   > Hi Scott,
   >
   > I can tell you without a doubt that sendmail works.. I can
   > also tell you
   > that postfix works, and that qmail works. I remember learning sendmail,
   > however, and cursing at the configuration. Years later, I
   > still curse at
   > sendmail configuration. :-)
   >
   > I still use sendmail and postfix on my systems, and brush with
   > qmail only
   > occasionally lately.
   >
   > Sendmail is good because it is pretty much guaranteed to be
   > available on
   > any UNIX system you come across. If you are going after an
   > admin career,
   > you will need to know sendmail, and I suspect this requirement will
   > persist for quite a few years.
   >
   > If, on the other hand, this is for your own projects, you can safely
   > ignore sendmail and go with something that's easier to manage.
   >
   > - Ryan
   >
   >
   > Scott Gerhardt wrote to FreeBSD:
   >
   > > 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
   > > _________________________________
   > >
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