On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 01:18:41PM -0400, Richard A Nelson wrote: > > I guess my thoughts are: > 1) Let me know what sendmail can do to help > 2) If you want to switch, check to see if you've got anything tricky > in your rules - you *WILL* loose functionality with any other MTA > (turing complete control language). If you've a fairly genereric > sendmail.mc - you're probably ok
This is not true, Exim allows much more flexibility with configuration, sendmail cannot handle seperate virtual domains (i.e. [EMAIL PROTECTED] is not the same as [EMAIL PROTECTED]) which is very usefull when running, for instance, web-based email services, and you don't want the usernames for it to conflict with your shell accounts on another domain, same server. > 3) I've heard (no experience) that Postfix is probably the easiest migration > It seems that you've had little experience with anything but sendmail, so you're opinion may be rather biased. I have used sendmail, exim, postfix and qmail and I think that exim and postfix are very good, high performance yet easily configurable and maintainable mail servers. Qmail I here gives better performance, but it's a hassle to maintain. I migrated from sendmail to exim and it was extremely easy (thanks to exim's amble documentation). -- Nick Jennings