From: "David L. Gehrt" <dlg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: dlg@xxxxxxxxxxx,For users of Fedora Core releases
<fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: mail server Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 14:06:31 -0800
> On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 17:54 +0500, azeem ahmad wrote:
> > hi list
> > on FC4 box which mail server is recomended regarding ease of
configuration
> > and security
>
> Man, this is just begging for a holy war, isn't it?
>
> The answer is, "go with the one you are most comfortable with."
>
> So you need to figure out a couple of things. Which one has the
> documentation you find easiest to deal with? Which one has the user
> community you feel most comfortable with? Which one is more intuitive
> to use?
>
> For me, I started with Sendmail about a decade ago, so I am most
> comfortable with it. It just makes sense to me, and I find Postfix a
> royal PITA. However, people who started off with Postfix think I'm a
> loon.
>
> Both work really well, and both are very full-featured. Pick one and go
> for it.
>
> Thomas
Hear, hear, Thomas. I started with Sendmail 20+ years ago on several
*NIXes for users communities of 3000+, 50, 5 and now just me.
When I got my first job as a UNIX sysadmin my priorities were (1) keep
the network up and (2) keep the e-mail flowing. That meant learning
sendmail.
I went through the bad old days of the monthly (or more frequent)
security updates which resulted in the alternatives such as Postfix. It
has been a while since a big deal sendmail problem. I started hacking
.cf files cause that was the only configuration method there was. I do
recognize that at first blush sendmail config is complicated.
My current configuration is more complicated than it needs to be, but
it is what I have implemented in the past, and I still operate as if my
job depends on it, even though I am retired.
I also remember the "religious wars" -- VMS/UNIX, and EMACS/VI/PICO and
even GNU EMACS/Unipress EMACS/Gosling EMACS. There WERE others, so my
advice would be to take this discussion off the list.
Now, as is Thomas, I am comfortable with sendmail, my chosen MTA. Each
mail administrator has to make his or her own choice based on the
requirements of the e-mail service to be implemented, not based on what
works for Thomas, me or anybody else, and then get comfortable with it.
Cheers,
dlg
:)
well
so Mr. dlg and Mr. Thomas, i just picked up sendmail and started configuring
it, n one other inportant thing, n that is i m not a sys admin ;) instead a
student
anyways
u guys helped me a lot
Regards
Azeem
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