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

[Chris Knowles]

Since Both would almost certainly make the class much too long to
handle... I vote for sendmail.

Personally, I use postfix, and will continue to, but Jon's points about
widespread usage are well meant... also, postfix setup (for the trivial
case of one domain, etc) is easy enough to be done almost without any
direction.  Sendmail setup however, seems to need advanced degrees in
both subspace field dynamics, and Klingon.  Seeing how Jon has both
those degrees... :)

CJK

On Sun, 2002-11-03 at 12:56, William Gomeringer wrote:
> 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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