Camaleón wrote:
On Fri, 16 Sep 2011 15:00:22 -0700, patk.1034 wrote:
(...)
Since 'here' is where Debian-ites 'live', I'd like to ask for
experienced opinioins. Specifically in a Debian-server world, why one
over the other?
One thing to consider is what ELSE you're going to be running on your
mail server - antispam, antivirus, list server, archiver, etc.; how well
those integrate with exim vs. postfix vs. whatever; how well documented
various combinations are; how much support is available; etc.
For what it's worth, my own experience:
On my production mail servers, I've ended up with
postfox+amavisd+spamassassin+clamav for generic mail processing; sympa
as a mailing list manager; and uw-imapd for mailboxes. Getting all the
pieces wired together tends to be just a bit tricky - and I've found
that most of the documentation and howto writeups seem to focus on
postfix. It also seems to be a lot easier to get help on the various
lists if one is running postfix (though Weitse can be a bit crusty in
response to stupid or simple questions on the postfix list - along the
lines of RTFM responses; perhaps justified because the documentation is
very good).
On other servers (physical and virtual), where mail is installed only so
server jobs can send mail to sysadmin (on another machine), I just do
the default, minimal exim install - it's simple, just works, and needs
absolutely no maintenance.
Miles Fidelman
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