Whic mail server?
Michael Powell
nightrecon at hotmail.com
Sun Sep 27 14:25:23 UTC 2009
Aflatoon Aflatooni wrote:
> Hi,
> I am running a server that is acting as the mail server for only internal
> users (about 50 users). Currently we are running Sendmail, but reading on
> other discussions I noticed that qmail and other programs are suggested. I
> am wondering if qmail is thought to be better than sendmail. Is there a
> matrix of features and functionalities that would compare the different
> mail servers? Any suggestions on spam filters like spam-assassin?
>
>
> Thank you
This is, of course, my own personal bias here but I wouldn't touch qmail
with a ten foot pole. I know many have used it successfully and been happy
with it.
It is very easy to begin with a single domain for local delivery to
configure sendmail as per the instructions in the Handbook. Postfix is
designed to be a drop in replacement for Sendmail, and for a simple Sendmail
already configured, Postfix will just take over and work when installed.
Additions such as MySQL for virtual domains and users, spamd, etc., can then
be plugged in to the basic setup one at a time. There is a pretty fair
amount of documentation in the Postfix world for such things.
If you are looking to change out Sendmail my vote would be Postfix as it is
easier to build on and build up from the setup you're currently using.
However, I'd like to point out if you have only one mail server you probably
should do this on a second duplicate machine and then once it is proved to
work properly swap them. There is a pretty good chance if you only have one
mail server you're going to take it down while mucking about.
-Mike
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