Re: [SLUG] Quick and dirty mail/spam server

[James Gray]

On 26/11/2007, at 10:52 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Jeff Waugh wrote:

<quote who="O Plameras">

Quick and dirty mail server ? Postfix and others.

Scalable and professional mail server ? Sendmail.

Ha ha ha ha.

Please explain.

O Plameras

Btw; for anybody thinking I was trying to provoke a MTA war =P -- My intention was to enquire if Sendmail was still a dominant enterprise-grade MTA since there's so much talk about Postfix. But if this thread serves to review the pros and cons between different MTAs and stimulates interesting discussion then I accept no responsibility for any resulting flames, riots, bruised egos, public crucifixions etc <paste applicable sections of GNU license here> :)

FWIW, Postfix is third on my list of "preferred" behind Sendmail and Exim (1 and 2 respectively). However, my reasons for putting Postfix third are largely due to political differences between Wietse Venema and the community/author of my preferred AVAS solution (MailScanner - see my other post in this thread). Political differences aside, Postfix a very robust platform but in my experience not a platform I would choose for enterprise-grade mail systems. I've seen Postfix do some interesting things when thrown behind load balancers/layer 7 switches and other exotica. However, that is going back over 5 years and it's probable I experienced bugs that have long since been fixed. However, at the time, where postfix was throwing us a loop, sendmail and exim just rocked on. Horses for courses I guess, and the admin's experience and expertise make part of that course too (that's a nice way of saying PEBKAC :P ).

As far as I'm concerned, Sendmail is the greatest MTA there is simply because I use it, and have

never used anything else :)

Cheers,

James

Here, here. My current employer uses exclusively Exim in our high- volume, high-availability cluster and it's doing a stellar job. Still, I've never really felt as "in control" of any MTA the way I do when I'm driving Sendmail. The stuff you can do with Sendmail is just fantastic and IMHO intuitive once you get your head around how it all hangs together - leave the .cf file (the hell) alone and just poke around the .mc and you're fine.

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