> Can anyone provide some comparison between Sendmail and SMTP for > sending outgoing mail from the server? Are there advantages of one > over the other, or disadvantages? Are there reasons why I should use > one rather than the other for SquirrelMail?
With sendmail, you probably get a mild efficiency improvement. With sendmail, you probably get a boatload of generally tolerable quirky behavior. With SMTP, you reduce your dependency on the host environment because you're just speaking a protocol and not calling some specific program. With SMTP, you go through port 25 (or whatever you configure), so your internal protections against spam, viruses, DoS, and on and on, are are likely to operate more consistently between your SM traffic and your "all other" traffic. Me? I'd always choose SMTP unless there were some particular issue that had me stuck, and sendmail was a cure. However, I'm biased because I dislike sendmail for non-SM reasons (and even though I use something else that emulates it :-). ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV -- squirrelmail-users mailing list Posting Guidelines: http://www.squirrelmail.org/wiki/MailingListPostingGuidelines List Address: [email protected] List Archives: http://news.gmane.org/thread.php?group=gmane.mail.squirrelmail.user List Archives: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=2995 List Info: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users
