On 9/26/06, WJCarpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Can anyone provide some comparison between Sendmail and SMTP for > > sending outgoing mail from the server? Are there advantages of one > > over the other, or disadvantages? Are there reasons why I should use > > one rather than the other for SquirrelMail? > > With sendmail, you probably get a mild efficiency improvement. > > With sendmail, you probably get a boatload of generally tolerable quirky > behavior. > > With SMTP, you reduce your dependency on the host environment because you're > just speaking a > protocol and not calling some specific program. > > With SMTP, you go through port 25 (or whatever you configure), so your > internal protections > against spam, viruses, DoS, and on and on, are are likely to operate more > consistently between > your SM traffic and your "all other" traffic. > > Me? I'd always choose SMTP unless there were some particular issue that had > me stuck, and > sendmail was a cure. However, I'm biased because I dislike sendmail for > non-SM reasons (and > even though I use something else that emulates it :-).
I am partial to SMTP because you get immediate feedback (on the compose screen) for some types (certainly not all) of errant mails (for example, try sending to a locally hosted domain to a non-existant email account), where Sendmail will take the message no matter what and you might get a bounce later (some people like that, I guess, though). SMTP is really nice if you do things like set up a specific port for your webmail senders in Postfix for which a different set of restrictions/filters is applicable compared to your outward-facing SMTP service/port. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV -- squirrelmail-users mailing list Posting Guidelines: http://www.squirrelmail.org/wiki/MailingListPostingGuidelines List Address: [email protected] List Archives: http://news.gmane.org/thread.php?group=gmane.mail.squirrelmail.user List Archives: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=2995 List Info: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users
