> What are the merits and demerits of the various MTA's out there? I have > read that sendmail has security flaws and to steer clear of this. Aaron > recommended Postfix and one of his biggest reasons appeared to be because > it is GPL'd where qmail is not. qmail appears to be highly configurable for > things like spam/virus filtering, mailing lists and such. I would be > surprised if Postfix is not just as configurable. >
I would not call qmail highly configurable. It is configurable ... but not the greatest. For example, it is not the simplest or most straightforward way to configure relaying. You set environment variables, and configure tcpserver (third party package). In postfix ... you have everything in the configuration files ... just change $my_networks. qmail is not GPL'd ... it dies with Dan. postfix supports qmail style Maildir, and many more features that are just plain nice. That is highly configurable in my world. O.K. we'll just support another mail storage format of another server (nice). It has a sendmail replacement binary, hooks into PostgreSQL (yay!), and MySQL if you desire. It plays nice with all sorts of mail retrieval (pop and imap). Nice configurations (much nicer that most other options), well ... very well documented. It's just all around good. I just moved a major client away from qmail (800+ users / multiple domains). They in fact requested to be released from the gripping fist called qmail. They actually had to limit mail scanning to incoming (not outgoing) because qmail was simply too slow, and resource hoggish when doing multi way scanning. (Although for 10 users ... it really wouldn't matter much, but why settle when you don't have too). I prefer postfix log output ... by far. I find it much more intelligible when you need to search for something. > I have also had Kolab server recommended to me but I don't know, this seems > to be over-the-top as far as what my needs are. I suppose I should define > them here as this will most likely influence people's recommendations. I am > talking about setting up a mail server to handle my own domain's mail. Less > than 10 users, not a lot of traffic. Kolab is bundling everything for you ... SMTP (authenticated), choice of POP3, POP3s, IMAP, IMAPS, bundled and configured for clamav, and Spamassassin right from the get go. To set that up yourself by hand is quite a bit of work. It has a super simple administration interface, and it offers groupware capabilities as well. You don't have to use them, but they are there. At the moment ... the current server version is single domain only. You can hand configure Kolab to receive for multiple domains ... but it's not available in thier admin interface. The next release (which is in beta right now) is supposed to contain multi-domain support though. Andy _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
