One vote for BOTH
On Sun, 2002-11-03 at 12:28, Jon Carnes wrote: > I'm looking for input on which MTA folks want to use in the Mail server > class. The MTA isn't really important for the concepts of the class but > it makes a big difference in the "push-button" portion of the notes. > > The two MTA's to choose from are Sendmail and Postfix. > > Sendmail is the default of many distributions and is a true work-horse. > It is one of the best known and widely used MTA's on the Internet. The > main advantage of Sendmail is that it works right "out of the box" so to > speak. Plus Sendmail is the Defacto Mailserver - everything written for > a mail system is written with Sendmail in mind. It is the standard > MTA. > TriLUG used Sendmail for 5 good years, and never dropped an email. > > The main disadvantages of Sendmail are that it is harder to tweak and it > does not handle virtual domains as well as Postfix. > > > Postfix is rapidly gaining popularity in Linux distributions that are > designed for business use, and deservedly so. Postfix is written to be > secure from the ground-up. It's also 99.9% Sendmail compliant > (Sendmail's alias and supplemental configuration files will work with > Postfix). Postfix is "optimized": it's setup to move the maximum amount > of mail in the least amount of time using the least number of > resources. > TriLUG recently begain running some Virtual domains (as a helping hand > to some of our brother orgs) and at that time dumped Sendmail for > Postfix. The mail you're getting right now is brought to you via > TriLUG's Postfix mail server > > So what's the down side? Postfix is great on Linux but on other Unixes > it is not as widely supported or as easy to install. Out in the real > world (at least for now) you are much more likely to run into a Sendmail > install than a postfix installation. > > ==== > An alternative to choosing one MTA over another one, is that we could > have two classes: one that uses Sendmail and the other that uses > Postfix. That would have the advantage of making the class size smaller > and letting some folks attend twice. > > Any thoughtful input and opinions will be appreciated. > > Jon Carnes > > _______________________________________________ > TriLUG mailing list > http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ: > http://www.trilug.org/~lovelace/faq/TriLUG-faq.html > _______________________________________________ TriLUG mailing list http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ: http://www.trilug.org/~lovelace/faq/TriLUG-faq.html
