[TriLUG] Hopefully not so easy...

[Andrew Perrin]

I've never used postfix, so can't comment.

I had to manage sendmail for a few years on a small solaris network. It
was certainly manageable, but the syntax of sendmail.cf is amazingly
arcane.  Any changes always involved a lot of digging through docs.

I use exim now, albeit not in any large or multiuser
setting. Configuration is a cinch, and it's very flexible. I'm willing to
believe it's slower and less scaleable than sendmail, but it does
everything I need and I don't spend time reading the documentation.

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Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin
Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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On Fri, 3 May 2002, Christopher Knowles wrote:

> Very interested.  I've heard recommendations for sendmail (for those who like 
> a challenge...) exim (as being easier and "saner" than sendmail) and 
> postfix... So, can proponents of the three duke it out for my amusement?  :)  
> 
> CJK
> 
> On Friday 03 May 2002 08:09 pm, Chris Merrill wrote:
> > >>As a note to anyone... how do people recommend I learn about MTA's?  Any
> > >>good books, should I switch from sendmail for my sanity, Online howtos?
> >
> > I have a book on Postfix...it starts with a few chapters
> > on mail systems and the various protocols and more common
> > servers.  It helped me to understand the overall process
> > much more clearly - and I found that I did not understand
> > it as well as I thought I had.
> >
> > I can get the name if you're interested.
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