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 > Praise > > -- > To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e- unsubscribe@suse.com > For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e- help@suse.com > Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq and the > archives at http://lists.suse.com > > ----------- Thomas Adam ----------- "The Linux Weekend Mechanic" -- <www.linuxgazette.com> "This is Linux country. If you listen carefully you can hear the sound of Windows rebooting....." -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq and the archives at http://lists.suse.com ALEJANDRO ORTEGA PÁEZ - ADM. de Sistemas - Nostracom aortega@nostracom.com