[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Joseph S. Gardner wrote: > > > > > any preferences between postfix, QMail or sendmail? > > > > > > Yes. I've used postfix and qmail. I prefer postfix. This is because > > 1. postfix is easier to set up prevent an open relay "out of the box". > > 2. Is quite easy to configure, as long as you read the directions or are > willing to visit the postfix web site when something doesn't work right > because you didn't follow directions. > > 3. Has an active mailing list, which Wietse Venema (postfix > author) actively contributes to. > > 4. It serves me well. We run mail for 10 or so active virtual hosts, > probably about 1000msg/day, and postfix is set it up and forget it, all on > an Pentium II 233MHz with 48M of ram. We run pop for most of the users (I > use pine on the box itself). It is quite fast as well. > > Please note, qmail, which was written by Dan Bernstein, is also well > regarded. I had a harder time setting it up, but then I was less > experienced at the time. You won't go far wrong with either. Sendmail is > a huge program, written when email was tranferred using a larger number of > protocols and your MTA needed to support them all. Ergo, it is much harder > to configure. Its bad reputation was probably founded by some security > bugs (fixed for a while now), and the fact that many vendors shipped it > as an open relay "out of the box" IIRC. I've never used it. > > These, of course, are my opinions, probably worth more or less what you're > paying for them <grin>. > > -burk > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Linux File Managers: http://www.pobox.com/~burk/linuxfile.html All opinions welcome =0) especially since I haven't figured out where to start Thanks -- Joseph S Gardner Senior Designer / Technical Support Kirby Co., Cleveland, OH [EMAIL PROTECTED] The box said, "Requires Windows 3.x or better", so I got Linux. Registered Linux user #1696600
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