tickticker wrote:
> My 2 cents,
>
> Postfix and Exim are the easiest to setup and handle most anything you
> will need it for. While i've set em all up, hands down these just work
> and handle large (enough)amounts of traffic, unless you have massive
> amounts of users like a medium sized isp or larger.
>
> Qmail is horrible to setup, and the gentleman who wrote it hasn't
> updated it in years, and the custom licensing will not allow addition of
> any of the NUMEROUS fixes and updates or a new version (last time i
> bothered to look) to the source. Might work great at sending mail, but
> not worth the effort IMHO (even with that toaster setup, if it's still
> around).
I think this is a dated opinion. Installing the toaster today is simply a
matter of running a few scripts (granted, it can take a while to compile
everything). It also includes simscan, spamassassin, clamav, and a host of
other add-ons that are already added in.
> Sendmail is dated, someone difficult to configure (recompile with every
> setting change), and probably the most insecure as the beast has evolved
> over the years. also runs like a champ.
>
> be sure to pipe everything through spamassassin and Clamav and maybe
> even Anomy or somesuch other attachment control. Amavisd comes to mind
> as well for this. there are others, and i will not knock 'em.
>
> I'm not an email administrator, I just play one at client sites.
>
> Tickticker
> <http://cyborg.namedecoder.com>
> Kenneth wrote:
>> I'm beginning the process of learning about MTAs, MUAs, and whatever all
>> those other acronyms are. I have never had the need to set one up, and still
>> don't really have a need but I thought I would add to my knowledge.
>>
>> What are some good packages I should be looking at? I did a quick install of
>> qmail on Gentoo, but it doesn't seem to want to start up, it's looking for a
>> whole bunch of files in /var/qmail/control that don't exist. I'm not
>> knocking qmail for this, at least yet. I still have to look over the
>> documentation more thoroughly, probably something I didn't do.
>>
--
-Eric 'shubes'
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