Mail Servers

From what I've found on the internet, the MTAs that are most used are
Sendmail, Postfix, qmail and Exim.

It would appear that Sendmail is a bit old and slow and difficult, and
that the other three are better alternatives. Of those three, which
would be the most used? I would have guessed Postfix, qmail and Exim
in that order. Am I right?

Dan

"Dan" <dan@dontspammecauseidontlikit.com> wrote in message
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> From what I've found on the internet, the MTAs that are most used are
> Sendmail, Postfix, qmail and Exim.

Yup.

> It would appear that Sendmail is a bit old and slow and difficult, and
> that the other three are better alternatives. Of those three, which
> would be the most used? I would have guessed Postfix, qmail and Exim
> in that order. Am I right?

How dare you insult the sacred honour of Sendmail? It is
indeed very very finnikity to setup (almost a labour of love),
but it is the most wonderously configurable piece of kit in
the world IMHO. Ages ago I considered switching to Exim
or similar but I felt this would betray the fine sendmail heritage.

To answer your question though, I /think/ that Sendmail is
the most popular (just because it comes with all the distros).

For 'major' or 'main' servers (proper companies etc...) then
probably Postfix but I dunno for certain.

Use sendmail - it rocks.

Cheers,

Dave.

Dan <dan@dontspammecauseidontlikit.com> wrote:
>
> From what I've found on the internet, the MTAs that are most used are
> Sendmail, Postfix, qmail and Exim.
>
> It would appear that Sendmail is a bit old and slow and difficult, and
> that the other three are better alternatives. Of those three, which
> would be the most used? I would have guessed Postfix, qmail and Exim
> in that order. Am I right?

For small sites, I recommend Exim. Its easy to learn, and very clear to
configure. Get the O'Reilly book.

Exim is very popular (or at least, very common), as its the default MTA
for Debian. I love exim, it restored my sanity with its eximconfig
program (Sendmail had previously scared me bad when I was a newbie).

Sendmail isn't slow, but it is old and difficult, with a spotty security
history. It is, however extremely configurable and almost omnipresent as
far as available on *nix platforms goes.

--
Cameron Kerr
cameron.kerr@paradise.net.nz : http://nzgeeks.org/cameron/
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On 26 Feb 2004 21:09:02 +1300, Cameron Kerr <cameron.kerr@paradise.net.nz> wrote:
>
>
> Dan <dan@dontspammecauseidontlikit.com> wrote:
>>
>> From what I've found on the internet, the MTAs that are most used are
>> Sendmail, Postfix, qmail and Exim.
>>
>> It would appear that Sendmail is a bit old and slow and difficult, and
>> that the other three are better alternatives. Of those three, which
>> would be the most used? I would have guessed Postfix, qmail and Exim
>> in that order. Am I right?
>
> For small sites, I recommend Exim. Its easy to learn, and very clear to
> configure. Get the O'Reilly book.
>
> Exim is very popular (or at least, very common), as its the default MTA
> for Debian. I love exim, it restored my sanity with its eximconfig
> program (Sendmail had previously scared me bad when I was a newbie).
>
> Sendmail isn't slow, but it is old and difficult, with a spotty security
> history. It is, however extremely configurable and almost omnipresent as
> far as available on *nix platforms goes.
>

I third the motion. Exim. The info pages are incredibly thorough, with
them, the book from OREILLY, and a subscription to its very active
mailing list, you are there.

It has way more features than I'll ever need...

And more capacity...



AC

--
ed(1) Check out the original tutorials by Brian W.
Kernighan at the Ed Home Page http://tinyurl.com/2aa6g

On Exim books. Has anyone been able to get the latest book on Exim 4. It
not on amazon or barns and noble here in the us. Found exim 4 on Amazon
british site. The book been out for about a year. Thanks.

On Wed, 25 Feb 2004 21:12:56 +0800, Dan wrote:

>
> From what I've found on the internet, the MTAs that are most used are
> Sendmail, Postfix, qmail and Exim.
>
> It would appear that Sendmail is a bit old and slow and difficult, and
> that the other three are better alternatives. Of those three, which
> would be the most used? I would have guessed Postfix, qmail and Exim
> in that order. Am I right?
>
> Dan

Not sure why it is important to you which of the three programs is the
"most used" unless you are writing a school paper or doing market
research. However, I've been using Postfix for sometime and it works
beautifully and was relatively easy to configure and get going. Has been
super-stable since with virtually no maintenance.

So, if you're just looking for recommendations based on user experience,
there's mine.



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