Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2005 08:10:21 -0600 (CST) From: Duo <duo@digitalarcadia.net> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Which mail server is the best for me? Message-ID: <Pine.OSX.4.61.0504020754410.13866@valkyrie.local> In-Reply-To: <20050402124402.GA6829@gothmog.gr> References: <000001c53763$b1a9ea80$9900000a@ZGISH> <810a540e0504020157786d9696@mail.gmail.com> <20050402124402.GA6829@gothmog.gr>
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On Sat, 2 Apr 2005, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > ``Sendmail is insecure'' is a broad statement that is no longer true, > but let's put that aside for a while. However, it should also be pointed out that, historically, sendmail has at times, been more trouble than its worth. It does have a rather long history of being difficult to configure, and vulnerable. While it has gotten better, id like to throw my $0.02 in here and say, postfix is a nice elegant solution to the whole thing. I run postfix in darwin. Postfix is a drop in replacement of sendmail, offers (IMO) better options, more security, and in my experience, better documentation than sendmail. It also seems to play better with spam and anti virus add ons. I don't want to start a religious war here, but, sendmail in my experience has been more about overthinking the plumbing, and really isint geared towards novices. In short, you will find that postfix documentation is more in "english" and sendmail is more in "geek". Which is fine and dandy. Ultimately both scale about the same, as postfix can be dropped into a sendmail environment and quickly converted. Postfix is like sendmail, without the blood, sweat and tears. If you want to get up and running, with 10-20 users, with a minimum of fuss, and really solid, non arcane documentation, id go with postfix. It's a great project, well updated, well supported, and much lauded. I would *not* recommend sendmail to anyone supporting a low user amount, in my opinion, the time/trouble to fiddle with sendmail is not worth it. Period, end of story. =) But, again, that's just my $0.02. Dont take my word for it however, look at both http://www.sendmail.org and http://www.postfix.org. The documentation differences, and indeed, style in which its presented, alone should sell you on postfix. =) I have zero experience with qmail, so I can't comment on it. I know people who use it have good things to say about it. Including some of the web based administration of it. -- Duo Although the Buddhists will tell you that desire is the root of suffering, my personal experience leads me to point the finger at system administration. --Philip Greenspun
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