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Date:      Mon, 28 Sep 2009 09:53:38 -0400
From:      Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu>
To:        Aflatoon Aflatooni <aaflatooni@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Whic mail server?
Message-ID:  <20090928135338.GB15844@gizmo.acns.msu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20090928134937.GA15844@gizmo.acns.msu.edu>
References:  <721122.91358.qm@web56206.mail.re3.yahoo.com> <20090928134937.GA15844@gizmo.acns.msu.edu>

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On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 09:49:37AM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 06:01:22AM -0700, Aflatoon Aflatooni wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > I am running a server that is acting as the mail server for only internal 
> > users (about 50 users). Currently we are running Sendmail, but reading on 
> > other discussions I noticed that qmail and other programs are suggested.
> > I am wondering if qmail is thought to be better than sendmail. Is there 
> > a matrix of features and functionalities that would compare the different 
> > mail servers? 
> 
> No, sendmail is as good or better, especially in a situation such
> as you describe.    Some people believe that sendmail can be hard
> to configure, and it is a little arcane to do it directly in the
> sendmail.cf file.  But there are things that help nowdays.  Anyway,
> if you already have it configured and working your are past
> that already.   Most of the things these others complain about 
> being to complicated are more exotic and special-cased stuff.
> Then they become religious zealots about their favorites.
> 
> > Any suggestions on spam filters like spam-assassin?
> 
> Learn to use procmail.

Sorry, I meant to say  spamassasin + procmail

////jerry

> 
> ////jerry
> 
> > 
> > Thank you
> >       
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