I don't think this will become too much of a religious war... Postfix is easily one of the best replacements for sendmail. A lot of popular Linux distributions have moved over to Postfix as their MTA so look for it to outpace Sendmail rapidly the next few years.
Of the drop-in replacements for Sendmail, Postfix is also one of the easiest to configure and to install. Postfix also has superior support for virtual domains, etc, etc, yadda, yadda, yadda.
Others in the also ran column include: exim and qmail. Though you have had a bad experience with qmail.
Good Luck with Postfix!
Jon Carnes (avid Sendmail fan, but Postfix realist)
On Mon, 2002-10-21 at 23:11, Jon Parise wrote:
On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 07:57:45PM -0700, NOW Website Coordinator wrote:
This has the potential to be come religious, but ...
What sendmail replacement are you using for your Unix (preferably Solaris) machine? Is it reliable? Fast (how big are your lists)? Not too hard to configure and use?
I've had excellent luck with Postfix. Configuration is always a breeze, and performance is quite good. In terms of Mailman, the integration is quite good (in the Mailman 2.1 branch).
I've also heard good things about exim, but I've never run it myself.
I used to run qmail (mainly for ezmlm), but I got tired of the "non-standard" way it handled things (e.g. .qmail files), switched to Postfix, and never looked back.
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