On 01/17/2015 03:58 PM, Anton Aylward wrote:
... by using Sendmail for SMTP ... I would not recommend sendmail to Istvan, not for someone new to setting
On 01/17/2015 04:14 PM, Moby wrote: this all up. Postfix was written to overcome the problems with Sendmail. While those were declared to be a fix for the security problems, in reality it turned out to be a fix for the problems with configuring sendmail.
Let not belittle either; a comprehensive SMTP service program is going to be complex if it is going to deal with every situation, so don't expect the configuration process to be trivial. But at least Postifx has "english sounding" (in the COBOL sense) variable names and a simple grammar, and a set of config files each of which addresses just one aspect.
I'm not saying that sendmail hasn't evolved. I'm just saying that Postix was a clean sheet and was trying to address the problems with Sendmail.
I grew up with sendmail in the 1980s and though the 1990s and hated it. Just about ever other SMTP or MTA program was easier to understand, the SMail- series, for example, MMDF, ZMailer, qmail and more recent ones, are easier to work with than sendmail.
If you are a sendmail guru or comfortable with sendmail, then all power to you, but for someone new to setting up a MTA my advice is to go with something like Postfix. It is modern and mainstream.
Take a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_mail_servers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Message_transfer_agent Full agree Anton. Were I to do this today, I would go with postfix. I started with sendmail many many moons ago and did not move my main email system to postfix - yet. For someone starting fresh, I would recommend Postfix as well.
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