From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 23 17:45:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from clyde.goodleaf.net (piscator.seanet.com [199.181.165.218]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36D5237B4C5 for ; Mon, 23 Oct 2000 17:45:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: by clyde.goodleaf.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 67D545BA9; Mon, 23 Oct 2000 17:44:20 -0700 (PDT) References: In-Reply-To: From: john@goodleaf.net To: "Adam Fladwood" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sendmail -or- Qmail? Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 00:44:20 GMT Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20001024004420.67D545BA9@clyde.goodleaf.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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