Re: MTA comparison (postfix, exim4, ...)

2007-11-24 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 23 Nov 2007, Florian Weimer wrote: On Fri, 23 Nov 2007, Florian Weimer wrote: Personally, what made me stick to Exim so far is the ability to configure retry behavior on a per-domain basis. One of my mail servers Postfix does that too. You direct the domains to a different

Re: MTA comparison (postfix, exim4, ...)

2007-11-23 Thread Florian Weimer
* Miles Bader: Postfix has a reputation for being faster and more secure than exim. Nowadays, the Postfix code base is larger than the Exim code base. Why is it worth worrying about, though? Are the difference between exim and postfix really great enough to matter for typical use?!?

Re: MTA comparison (postfix, exim4, ...)

2007-11-23 Thread Florian Weimer
* Henrique de Moraes Holschuh: On Fri, 23 Nov 2007, Florian Weimer wrote: Personally, what made me stick to Exim so far is the ability to configure retry behavior on a per-domain basis. One of my mail servers Postfix does that too. You direct the domains to a different transport, and

Re: MTA comparison (postfix, exim4, ...)

2007-11-23 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 23 Nov 2007, Florian Weimer wrote: Personally, what made me stick to Exim so far is the ability to configure retry behavior on a per-domain basis. One of my mail servers Postfix does that too. You direct the domains to a different transport, and setup that transport with whichever

Re: MTA comparison (postfix, exim4, ...)

2007-11-20 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 20 Nov 2007, Miles Bader wrote: Why is it worth worrying about, though? Are the difference between exim and postfix really great enough to matter for typical use?!? No, they are not. And I speak this as a Postfix user (I replace exim with postfix in every box I use or admin, and all

MTA religious wars (was: Re: MTA comparison (postfix, exim4, ...))

2007-11-20 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 03:41:20PM +0900, Miles Bader wrote: Postfix has a reputation for being faster and more secure than exim. When talking about security, exim doesn't exactly have a horribly bad track record. It's not qmail, but then I wouldn't *want* to use qmail for other reasons. Why

Re: MTA comparison (postfix, exim4, ...)

2007-11-19 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sat, 17 Nov 2007 01:44:51 +0900, Osamu Aoki [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Just to be sure... I am running postfix now just to find out the same questions you have... I see no practical reason to run postfix on desktop machine now except if postfix is something you are very familiar with...

Re: MTA comparison (postfix, exim4, ...)

2007-11-19 Thread Miles Bader
Osamu Aoki [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: For me, exim4 is better: * less memory on run time * mailname is implimented as expected by the policy. Postfix has a reputation for being faster and more secure than exim. Why is it worth worrying about, though? Are the difference between exim and

Re: MTA comparison (postfix, exim4, ...)

2007-11-17 Thread Florian Weimer
* MJ Ray: I believe http://www.postfix.org/ADDRESS_VERIFICATION_README.html details the facility you're looking for. I don't believe it does. I don't want to verify the recipient address - I want to try delivering the redirected mail and avoid being left holding the baby if the destination

Re: MTA comparison (postfix, exim4, ...)

2007-11-16 Thread MJ Ray
Osamu Aoki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Instead of removing data on you, it may be interesting to edit the following text to provide information on you and also add section on why you think exim is better as note on wiki. http://wiki.debian.org/DefaultMTA There is no link to edit that page.

Re: MTA comparison (postfix, exim4, ...)

2007-11-16 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
On Fri, 16 Nov 2007 10:36:06 + MJ Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. it doesn't seem to have as many anti-spam possibilities as Exim - there's postgrey for greylisting, but how can I tarpit RBL matches and other offences? A quick 'apt-cache search postfix' lists a number of different policy

Re: MTA comparison (postfix, exim4, ...)

2007-11-16 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
1. it doesn't seem to have as many anti-spam possibilities as Exim - there's postgrey for greylisting, but how can I tarpit RBL matches and other offences? Look at policyd-weight, for example. 2. when an email that I'm forwarding (due to /etc/aliases or a .forward or whatever) comes in,

Re: MTA comparison (postfix, exim4, ...)

2007-11-16 Thread Osamu Aoki
Just to be sure... I am running postfix now just to find out the same questions you have... I see no practical reason to run postfix on desktop machine now except if postfix is something you are very familiar with... As you mght have expected, Manoj who is one of the best DD and wants to

Re: MTA comparison (postfix, exim4, ...)

2007-11-16 Thread MJ Ray
Osamu Aoki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After seeing recent post(*) on the default MTA issue, I did some research and experiment on MTAs. They are summarized at: http://wiki.debian.org/DefaultMTA Although I am identified as running Postfix there, that was installed as a test a while ago. Most

Re: MTA comparison (postfix, exim4, ...)

2007-11-16 Thread MJ Ray
Michael Alan Dorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Still, if not...well, I wrote an event-driven postfix policy daemon in perl using POE that's able to handle 100 queries/second on consumer hardware in a few dozen lines of code. Thanks for the pointers. Can a policy server delay an incoming

Re: MTA comparison (postfix, exim4, ...)

2007-11-16 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
On Sat, 17 Nov 2007 00:31:17 + MJ Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the pointers. Can a policy server delay an incoming mail? I suspect that sleeping in the perl would delay all incoming mail and there's no access(5) response like Exim's delay, else I could do it another way. How

MTA comparison (postfix, exim4, ...)

2007-11-11 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, After seeing recent post(*) on the default MTA issue, I did some research and experiment on MTAs. They are summarized at: http://wiki.debian.org/DefaultMTA Also good review was found at: http://shearer.org/MTA_Comparison Although both exim4 and postfix daemons are negligibly small ones