--- lloyd dagoc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hello, > > hi i am new here and i want to ask what's the best > mail server (in your > opinion) for a linux/unix platform and why? > thanks...your answers will be of > much help = ) > > > lloyd hrmm the best Mailservers i think are those that yahoo uses or those that can handle millions of users :) hehe kidding aside
if you are asking about MTA's well the answer is depende :) every mta has it's pros's and con's i suggest you go read and visit this url's www.postfix.org www.sendmail.org www.qmail.org www.exim.org these are the 4 most common used mta's in a *nix/linux envirorment opinions will differ for every person but ill try to give you some information about this four postfix is a drop in replacement for sendmail it is fast easy to configure and not as monolithic as sendmail and it keeps almost 100% compatibility with sendmail it is very actively devoloped it is stable and secure ( only one exploit that i know of and that was like years ago ) yet it is still young so expect more improvements from it sendmail - the mother of all mothers the oldest of the 4 mta's (defacto standard? :) ) some people would swear by it, a very powerful mta but has it share with security issues cause of its monolithic nature ( recently another exploit was found local root exploit) very hard to configure (cause i dont use it thats why) :) and yet it's features are unmatched if you know how to use it stick with it specially with the new 8.12(not sure about the version) running as non suid root and yeah i heard it would not be monolithic ... qmail ( im a qmail user but ill try not to be bias) qmail is an advanced smtp server .. a replacement for sendmail.. it's not monolithic and has been tested to work gracefully on high loads ( yahoo, hotmail to name a few who use it ) one of its best traits is its design, security and straigh forward configuration.( some people say qmail is hard to configure :) i say they are just to lazy to read ) it has a very strict licensing (DJB style licensing) but yes still free. it is not actively developed by djb anymore ( he's to busy suing the US govt. :) ) hehe been years ( the last version released was version 1.03 - 1998) but there are other people who release patches for it one thing i can say .. qmail + ldap (www.nrg4u.com rocks) IT'S NOT JUST SECURE.. IT'S "DJBSECURE" no known exploit or whatsoever (all hear say :)) (fast secure and reliable what else can you ask for) exim - is sendmail and qmail in one (i read about this a long time ago ) good for small and not so big mailservers, easy to configure (debian distro has it as default mta) but has a couple of bugs recently well, read more and choose the one you like and fits your taste .. -Dek [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Listen to your Yahoo! Mail messages from any phone. http://phone.yahoo.com _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
