what differences (pros and cons) have folk found?
OS X 10.3 server uses postfix and cyrus for it's mail.
Postfix is extremely powerful, and cyrus offers IMAP and secure IMAP (and secure pop I believe). Postfix is reasonably straightforward to setup, but is also complicated. What I mean is that it is not obtuse and filled with strange and bizarre syntax, but there is still a lot to learn. The Apple GUI for dealing with the mail server makes a lot of this much easer. But you may still find yourself delving into the guts of main.cf or master.cf
can you do all the things we know and love under SIMS on the Xserver mail system?
The biggest missing feature is the spamtrap, which while possible in postfix, is not nearly as simple or elegant. Also, setting up wildcard domains simply does not work "right".
[EMAIL PROTECTED] = d2-*
in postfix the syntax to do that (and that's not the postfix syntax, of course) will deliver ALL mail addressed to domain2, regardless of if an account exists.
requirments - nothing huge in my case approx 72 user accounts, 23 multi domains and plenty of blacklisted addresses ;)
Postfix does blacklisting and content filtering very very well. I use its header-checks to block virus-ish attachments at the transaction stage. I hand off mail to procmail (brilliant!) and filter everything through SpamAssassin.
It is not SIMS. It is not as easy to use as SIMS. But it is a lot more powerful.
-- sometimes ascii is the best use of bandwidth... Tonya Engst
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