Sendmail replacements?

Thu Feb 13 09:19:04 PST 2003

I've been running Postfix for a few years now, and I like it a lot.

However, I've just discovered Exim, and I might choose that for its
simpler configuration if I had to set up email for a small office.

Both can work with SpamAssassin and POP-before-SMTP and all the usual
add-ons. Both can read their lists from a database or LDAP or DB files.

I guess since you're starting from scratch either way, check the docs
and see which seem the most useful to you. You'll be referring to them a
lot. 

--Kurt

Roy Kim (rkim at networktology.com) typed this ...
> 
> Postfix is an excelent choice for replacing sendmail.
> 
> http://www.postfix.org
> 
> Features:
> It runs as a non-root user.
> It runs as multiple processes.
> It has a human readable config file.
> It runs MUCH faster than sendmail.
> 
> Roy Kim
> 
> Networktology Inc.
> 
> 
> On Thu, 13 Feb 2003, Rich Holland wrote:
> 
> 
> > [Approved despite the HTML.  Sigh.   -- postmaster at baylisa.org]
> >
> > It's been several years since I did any significant SMTP work, and now I
> > find that I've got to configure a bunch of machines and a central hub to
> > relay mail for the others.  My first thought was rewriting headers by
> > changing the sendmail.cf file, but now that I think about it, this may
> > be the time to replace sendmail with something "easier" or "better" or
> > "more secure" but I'm out of touch with the state of the art in SMTP
> > mailers.
> >
> >
> >
> > Anyone have any suggestions?
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks!
> > Rich
> >
> >
> 

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