On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 07:48 +0100, Michael Stiller wrote: > On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 05:33 +0000, Michael A. Peters wrote: > > On 01/18/2005 08:11:49 PM, Ben Halicki wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I'm in the process of a mailserver upgrade, just after your thoughts > > > as to > > > which MTA to go for... any ideas? > > > > I prefer postfix. > > Nothing against sendmail - it works too. > > Consider exim and qmail too. I was waiting for someome to say that. You can toss Courier (http://www.courier-mta.org/) into the mix too, especially if you want an all-in-one SMTP/IMAP/POP/Webmail/LDA/mailing list/web admin/coffee- maker/nanny/mistress package :-) The best mailserver (or any piece of software for that matter) is the one that you can easily understand, are comfortable with, and suits your needs. I'm a Postfix user myself, it one of those packages that "just works" - secure, quick, has a simple configuration syntax ($foo = bar,baz,quux) and all the modern bells and whistles. I've worked with Exim (flexible, and thus takes a bit more tinkering and thought re: acls and SMTP-AUTH for example) and sendmail (lots of resources, does pretty much everything - however the config is of course infamously arcane and in my opinion well suited to folks who rarely change their setups) I used to poke around with qmail too - the quirks are many but not insurmountable. I'd start with netqmail-1.05 nowadays though. What will put people off[1] is the number of patches needed for all the bells that Exim/Sendmail/PF/Courier has (AUTH/TLS/LDAP/SQL etc). The flat file control files on the other hand are generally no-brainers and easy to manipulate if you read the man pages (and thus know what they do) My 5cents? For the FC new user, try Postfix, Exim and Sendmail off the CDs first (read the docs first and/or try on a LAN rather than opening another potential spam relay..) and get a feel - if none of those suit then try some others (hey, I even rolled an RPM of zmailer for FC3, I just can't remember why :-)) > -Michael Michael. [1] (and why I'd recommend Courier for folks who "think in qmailish" but don't want too much migration hassle) -- Michael Fleming <mfleming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> WWW: http://www.enlartenment.com/ APT/YUM Repository for Fedora Core: http://www.enlartenment.com/packages.php "Bother" said the Borg, "We've assimilated Pooh!"
