POSTFIX is to slow when remotly checking mail. I use sendmail with a package called antispam which allows POP befor SMTP auth so my users can RELAY mail through the server. Sendmail is used by 75 % of server owners. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joseph S. Gardner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Linux Expert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, September 08, 2000 10:29 AM Subject: Re: [expert] web/email server > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Joseph S. Gardner wrote: > > > > > > > > any preferences between postfix, QMail or sendmail? > > > > > > > > > > Yes. I've used postfix and qmail. I prefer postfix. This is because > > > > 1. postfix is easier to set up prevent an open relay "out of the box". > > > > 2. Is quite easy to configure, as long as you read the directions or are > > willing to visit the postfix web site when something doesn't work right > > because you didn't follow directions. > > > > 3. Has an active mailing list, which Wietse Venema (postfix > > author) actively contributes to. > > > > 4. It serves me well. We run mail for 10 or so active virtual hosts, > > probably about 1000msg/day, and postfix is set it up and forget it, all on > > an Pentium II 233MHz with 48M of ram. We run pop for most of the users (I > > use pine on the box itself). It is quite fast as well. > > > > Please note, qmail, which was written by Dan Bernstein, is also well > > regarded. I had a harder time setting it up, but then I was less > > experienced at the time. You won't go far wrong with either. Sendmail is > > a huge program, written when email was tranferred using a larger number of > > protocols and your MTA needed to support them all. Ergo, it is much harder > > to configure. Its bad reputation was probably founded by some security > > bugs (fixed for a while now), and the fact that many vendors shipped it > > as an open relay "out of the box" IIRC. I've never used it. > > > > These, of course, are my opinions, probably worth more or less what you're > > paying for them <grin>. > > > > -burk > > > > -- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Linux File Managers: http://www.pobox.com/~burk/linuxfile.html > > All opinions welcome =0) especially since I haven't figured out where to > start > > Thanks > -- > Joseph S Gardner > > Senior Designer / Technical Support > Kirby Co., Cleveland, OH > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > The box said, > "Requires Windows 3.x or better", > so I got Linux. > > Registered Linux user #1696600 > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: > Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list. >
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