El vie, 14-12-2001 a las 15:12, THOMAS ADAM escribió: 
> Hi all,
> 
> I am going to set up my first email server. At first, I 
thought about 
> sendmail as MTA, because it is the standard and it is 
easy to configure with 
> yast, but I am noticing that suse's rpms of sendmail (at 
least for 7.1) are 
> not so up to date.
> So I am looking for another mta...
> 
> What are the pro and cons about sendmail?

Sendmail has been the "de-facto" if you like for years. 
Originally a bsd product, it remains still to haunt us 
all... :-)

And this was the end of security everywhere internet! Recently sendmail last new fresh version had a very big
hole... is this a good choice? 

Seriously though the pro's of using Sendmail is that it is 
highly configureable. It allows many features to be 
implemented.
You don't know qmail... Since it's completely modular, it lets you everything you like. Sendmail is restricted to
its own code... qmail doesn't. And best of all: it include its own pop3 server; sendmail doesn't. Sendmail "swallows"
all ip addresses; qmail does not. Last version of qmail is 1.0.3, from 1988.............................. no need of change! 
But, only if you are good at using the language M4, thus 
this is a con of using Sendmail.
Right! A MTA usable by everybody!!! Perfect! 
> What about qmail?

Small, fast, reliable, often a second good choice to 
Sendmail.

No, no, no. A true alternative to sendmail, losing more and more adepts every time. 

> What about postfix?

heard of it...never used it.
If someone does not like sendmail or qmail, postfix is the real choice! Very very very at the front of sendmail. 

> I am already looking for some information about that, but 
I think I need your 
> advices too:-)
Consider seriously installing qmail. You will be happy ever after! 
I would recommend qmail, if I were you...it is so much more 
easier to configure than Sendmail.
Yes. New programming technologies is a demostration of genious. There's no need of many KBytes of written code:
qmail is 862 KBytes (even after compilation process). Sendmail is (SuSE 7.3 binary rpm package) 2 MB.... Must I
follow? 
HTH,
Alejandro Ortega.
Very bored and tired of sendmail. 

Thomas Adam


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