Message-ID: <008a01c05df7$9c2eec40$0100a8c0@9> From: "Dennis" <dlbt@pacific.net.sg> Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2000 21:39:20 +0800 Subject: Re: [SLE] Choosing an MTA Hey, it's me again, also in the midst of working on MTA for my project website. Try looking at sendmail and really have to chicken out with the thousand of lines.... :( How to get postfix working? any man or how-to that I can refer to? Help please, appreciated. :) Dennis @Singapore <p><p>> we went over this recently on the RH mailing list. Here's my $0.02:
At 11:35 AM 12/1/2000 -0800, you wrote:
On 1 Dec 2000 dave-mlist@bfnet.com wrote:
Most qmail users, including myself, see this as a feature for qmail: the sendmail way is the hard way.
The sendmail configuration is the hard way. But Postfix is easier to
configure, IMHO
Users new to an MTA (basically
anyone that has to ask which one they should use) will have a much easier learning curve with qmail configs than with sendmail configs.
postfix is command line compatible with sendmail, not config file compatible. The goal is to make sure the countless scripts out there that rely on '/usr/lib/sendmail' still work with postfix without the burden of sendmail configs.
Bingo!
I personally use postfix, and find it safe, efficient, well documented
Almost ...I had some trouble finding enough info on "Competely Virtual
Hosting"
and well supported. It almost always does exactly what I want with no config changes. When I do make config changes, it is usually to just one or two lines in the well documented and very plain configuration file.
Agreed
I tried qmail before I tried postfix and didn't like it. It was a while ago, but if I remember I decided that I wasn't ready for maildir and
qmail
required maildir. I also was addicted to procmail, and I didn't think qmail supported procmail. I don't know if they support mbox and procmail now (or if I just couldn't figure out how to set them up back then), but now I've transitioned to using maildir with postfix (no procmail) and am happy, but what the hell, maybe I'll give qmail another try.
So my recommendation to the original questioner is this ... try both qmail and postfix.
Yeah.
See which one suits your fancy. Use it. Just please don't use sendmail <grin>.
Right on, dude!
Frankly I don't understand why RedHat installs sendmail by default when postfix is probably far cheaper for them to support.
Me neither, it's sick of them to make sendmail default. They're probably afraid of what will happen, though, if they decide to make either postfix or qmail the deafult :-)
thornton
At 03:44 AM 12/4/2000 +0200, you wrote:
Hello all, I'm in a position to choose a good mail server. My goals are security (of course) and mantaining mailing lists easily. I have never had experience on administrating a mail server before.
I know, nothing in computer technology can be clearly stated as "good" or "bad". There is always a trade-off.
I only want to learn some very valuable experiences of yours about MTAs.
Best regards from Istanbul.