[TriLUG] Mailserver class options... sendmail vs postfix

[William Gomeringer]

One vote for BOTH


On Sun, 2002-11-03 at 12:28, Jon Carnes wrote:
> I'm looking for input on which MTA folks want to use in the Mail server
> class.  The MTA isn't really important for the concepts of the class but
> it makes a big difference in the "push-button" portion of the notes.
> 
> The two MTA's to choose from are Sendmail and Postfix.
> 
> Sendmail is the default of many distributions and is a true work-horse.
> It is one of the best known and widely used MTA's on the Internet. The
> main advantage of Sendmail is that it works right "out of the box" so to
> speak.  Plus Sendmail is the Defacto Mailserver - everything written for
> a mail system is written with Sendmail in mind.  It is the standard
> MTA.  
> TriLUG used Sendmail for 5 good years, and never dropped an email.
> 
> The main disadvantages of Sendmail are that it is harder to tweak and it
> does not handle virtual domains as well as Postfix. 
> 
> 
> Postfix is rapidly gaining popularity in Linux distributions that are
> designed for business use, and deservedly so. Postfix is written to be
> secure from the ground-up.  It's also 99.9% Sendmail compliant
> (Sendmail's alias and supplemental configuration files will work with
> Postfix).  Postfix is "optimized": it's setup to move the maximum amount
> of mail in the least amount of time using the least number of
> resources.  
> TriLUG recently begain running some Virtual domains (as a helping hand
> to some of our brother orgs) and at that time dumped Sendmail for
> Postfix. The mail you're getting right now is brought to you via
> TriLUG's Postfix mail server 
> 
> So what's the down side?  Postfix is great on Linux but on other Unixes
> it is not as widely supported or as easy to install. Out in the real
> world (at least for now) you are much more likely to run into a Sendmail
> install than a postfix installation.
> 
> ====
> An alternative to choosing one MTA over another one, is that we could
> have two classes: one that uses Sendmail and the other that uses
> Postfix.  That would have the advantage of making the class size smaller
> and letting some folks attend twice.
> 
> Any thoughtful input and opinions will be appreciated.
> 
> Jon Carnes 
> 
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