"Ing. Israel Garcia Alvarez" wrote:
> Hi:
>
> I would like to know the opinion of you about Postfix and Sendmail as MTA.
Sendmail: Is Sendmail
Postfix: Is natively sendmail compatible
Sendmail: Runs as root all the time when it doesn't need to
Postfix: Runs as root to bind to port 25 and as other users to do its thing
Sendmail: Support mbox files. When a single message is corruped, the whole
mbox can die
Postfix: Supports maildirs, though this works best with ReiserFS 9Ext2 runs
out of inodes)
Sendmail: Has legacy crap in it like UUCP
Postfix: Doesn't
Sendmail: Is configured though a conf file so large it is typically editeed
with a macro language
Postfix: Has a small and well commented configuration file
Sendmail: Wasn't written by Weitse Venema, who is God.
Postfix: was.
Mike
Mike
>
> Why?, because I have always used Sendmail and now I got a Mandrake 7.2
> which has Postfix. I would like your opinion between them about how fast,
> how secure, how easy to configurate is.
> Waiting for your answers.
>
> My best regards........
>
> Israel Garcia Alvarez
> LinuxUser #196178
> Administrador-Red Capiro
> Villa Clara
> http://www.vcl.sld.cu/~israel
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