Please show me a good and simple comparison between the two MTAs.

Priority is to robustness, spam & security protection, customizability
and ease of admin.

Thank you.

/Lizardnation

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Request for Question Clarification by bikerman-ga on 07 Sep 2003 15:03 PDT

Hello, lizardnation;

I just wondered if you are still in need of an answer for this
question, or if snsh-ga's comment gave you what you needed.

As someone who has messed with sendmail, qmail, and postfix, I can
personally  say that postfix is my favorite.  It has human-readable
config files (as opposed to sendmail's horrible configuration files)
and was more intuitive for me to learn than qmail.

Thanks,
bikerman

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Clarification of Question by lizardnation-ga on 12 Sep 2003 23:20 PDT

Hi Bikerman,

I'm still interested, even if I had made the decision to go to
postfix, I'd benefit from the information to even back it up a bit
more.

Thank you.

/Lizardnation

Good morning,

There is a pretty thorough comparison of Exim, Postfix, Qmail, and
Sendmail in the Mailman FAQ.  It has links to each homepage, and
covers ease of configuration, security, and performance.
http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=all#4.2

This site has pretty good comparison, but it was last modified in
July 2002, so it is a bit dated in the rapidly changing world of
open source software development.
http://www.mailsoftware.cjb.net/

There is a link to an up-to-date comparison here, but I am unable
to get to it.  I am including it because it is probably a
temporary (or perhaps even regional) problem.
http://librenix.com/?inode=1048
Here is the URL to the article:
http://shearer.org/en/writing/mtacomparison.html

As for spam, I would suggest the use of spamassassin (which should
work with any of the MTAs, and I am using it with Postfix
successfully).  I get several hundred spams per week, and see very
few of them in my inbox anymore due to spamassassin.  For a long
time, it caught 100% of the spam, but now the spammers have gotten
more clever, and I need to tighten things down a bit.  But
spamassassin is easy to configure and setup.  Do be sure to use
the provided spamc/spamd programs because using the perl version
will bog even a fast server down very quickly.  Spamassassin can
be found here
http://www.spamassassin.org/


I hope this helps, and good luck!
bikerman

browse this forum thread:

http://www.emailaddresses.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=14172&highlight=qmail+sendmail