From: Ranga Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 16:48:03 -0800
I am strongly advocating someone to get off Microsoft Exchange and move to a Linux based mail server. I have used Sendmail but I find it a bit complex. I chose qmail for my home system because I refused to learn sendmail's configuration arcana. I have been using qmail and ezmlm for (only) five years, and have been very happy with both. More recently, I have added Courier IMAP to the mix, and finally TMDA for spam filtering, for both my personal mail and for lists. (But TMDA is not perl, alas, so even more off-topic.) Impressively, I've never needed to upgrade qmail; there have been no security bugs found in all that time. It does need a small patch to compile on current Linux systems, so you might prefer the netqmail distribution (see http://www.qmail.org/netqmail/), which includes this as well as a few others. I found this link: http://www.geocities.com/mailsoftware42/ Looking at this Qmail seems OK to me. But I believe there are some perl based mail servers too. Your experience and recommendation? A "perl-based mail server" sounds like a bad deal. Mail is basic and relatively stable; what you want is an underlying MTA suite that is secure, reliable, and fast, and that has well-defined interfaces for extension. For that, qmail is ideal. In fact, qmail is so lightweight that you can consider downgrading the hardware. If you have an old 300MHz PC lying around, then you would probably only have to upgrade the disk in order to turn it into an acceptable mail hub. At work, FWIW, I have been using Postfix because it's supported by SuSE; in fact, Postfix has been the default MTA for SuSE since 8.0 or 8.1. I still have a slight preference for qmail, but it hasn't been worth the hassle to switch. (Though I may do so eventually, if I ever finish building RPMs for the qmail suite.) -- Bob Rogers http://rgrjr.dyndns.org/ _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
