Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 00:44:20 GMT From: john@goodleaf.net To: "Adam Fladwood" <adam@wiredrave.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sendmail -or- Qmail? Message-ID: <20001024004420.67D545BA9@clyde.goodleaf.net> In-Reply-To: <NEBBLMHKKLGHANKONFLMKEAECIAA.adam@wiredrave.com> References: <NEBBLMHKKLGHANKONFLMKEAECIAA.adam@wiredrave.com>
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I have to vote for qmail or postfix. It's not that sendmail is a _bad_ program, it's just that I don't understand it. I do understand qmail and postfix... Personally, I find postfix the easiest to use, and I use it for my own systems. However, qmail probably has a wider following and has very extensive online documentation, as well as additional modules, etc. There is also a book from SAMS publishing called _Running Qmail_, which happens to use FreeBSD 4 for most of its examples. So you may prefer qmail for the resources available to you. In any case, both qmail and postfix are a world easier to configure than sendmail. They are also reputed to be more secure than sendmail. I'm afraid I can't say anything about speed, as my systems don't generate enough traffic to torture test any of the software. -John Adam Fladwood writes: > I've been trying to figure out what I should do... I'm the systems admin > for an ISP that has a prettt steady flow of Mail. However sendmail seems to > be to much for me to handle as far as setting up certain rules and stuff. I > mean I have the sendmail book, but hell, that doesn't help a whole lot w/ > the rules - I don't have time to sit and read it. > > I've heard qmail is easier to configure and I've also heard it's faster... > is this true? What does everyone else use/recommend? > > Thanks! > > Adam > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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