Craig White wrote: >Subject: Re: Sendmail or Postfix? >On Sat, 2007-12-15 at 11:16 -0800, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: >> I discovered that I have sendmail and postfix on my system, >> and while I was unaware that postfix was installed, I had setup >> my sendmail configuration and everything seemed to work. >> >> However when I installed ISPConfig, it reconfigured postfix and now >> it seems that postfix has taken over sendmail. Odd, but not really. >> >> Prior to installing ISPConfig and using sendmail instead of postfix, >> I had previously reported that clamav and spamassassin in the >> sendmail.cf file was reporting errors and no one responded so no >> solution was in the works thus disabled. >> >> At this point, my postfix is not properly setup to where it >should be, >> so this means I have two choices, remove postfix and learn how to set >> it up properly or remove sendmail since I already know how it works, >> but I cannot have both of these running as it will conflict >with each other. >> >> So my question is: >> >> Which of the two Email systems are the most secure, that most people >> use and trust, has better control over intrusion and has >good AntiSpam >> and AntiVirus support? >---- >you should have labeled your post - holy war bait Sorry, that was not my intention. I was looking for a secure, trusted, Anti-"all", pop/imap, virtual user/domain and other fully-featured system that most IT admins might be using. I am guessing it is sendmail (as you also said, below) and I have been using sendmail for a long time, but at this time, I am had problems getting the clamav-milter and spamassassin-milter to work thus is disabled at this time. > >first... > >yum install system-switch-mail > >then you can easily switch between them simply by running command... > >system-switch-mail This is really cool! At least this will allow me to try out different email systems. > >second... > >I think sendmail is more widely in use and postfix is generally easier >for users to configure. Both have complete methodologies for resisting But for me, I thought sendmail was damn hard (still do) and yet I have more reading to do when it comes to postfix i.e. I have to start at the beginning. I have found links in HowtoForge.com: "Fedora 8 Server Setup: LAMP, Email, DNS, FTP, ISPConfig" but the "caveat" might be the use of ISPConfig which does NOT work with Gnome's GDM - but a temporary solution is to use /etc/desktop and KDE. Quite frankly, I am on the verge of ripping out ISPConfig and backing out certain changes as I am beginning to suspect that it caused other sets of problems, one which setroubleshoot is broke. As it is, setroubleshootd and sealert runs @ 95% of CPU individually, sealert hangs and zombies when terminated, and with both running takes 100% CPU and both do not work anymore. Reinstalling setroubleshoot will not fix it but it did work BEFORE I installed ISPConfig. Another link I found on HowtoForge.com: "Virtual Users and Domains With Postfix, Courier and MySql" and this also looks interesting but hey - I have done this with sendmail so I do not see the advantage of this other that this is a different and interesting postfix implementation. >intrusion and other nastiness such as relay control, pipelining, etc. >Both can easily integrate with other technologies such as spamassassin >and clamav but I would generally suggest that you use a 'wrapper' >technology such as MailScanner or amavisd-new. Interesting... > >My personal recommendations are to use postfix, MailScanner >(which wraps spamassassin and clamav and calls them when appropriate)... >note that if you go this route, use the '4.66-beta' version. BETA!?!? Uh, ok. ;) Do you know of any setup/howto's for setting up Postfix with MailScanner/amavisd such as you suggested? Thanks! No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.17.2/1184 - Release Date: 12/14/2007 11:29 AM
