Please respond to me directly instead of the list -- I don't want any religious wars started!
What I'm asking for is some comments or things to watch out for when converting from sendmail to either Postfix or qmail, and (more on topic) how to manage that in a smooth way with regard to Mailman. Pointers to any docs that you found very helpful in the transition would be just great.
These changes seem to eat up a lot of time, so anything that might save me some trouble will be really appreciated.
My current setup is rather simple, but I do have some requirements -- so I'm also very interested in comments regarding postfix vs qmail matching up the best for my needs:
This is on Linux.
I do virtual hosting so I use a virtusertable to route all mail to a given email address or to a given user. It's important that I add something like the X-Envelope-To: header (sendmail faq 3.29 IIRC) so people can run procmail or some such program yet still see the envelope of message of mail delivered into their account (for their domain(s)). Also, some domains have extra pop3 accounts where some mail goes to some users, and all other mail defaults to another user -- normal virtusertable setup.
I'm leaning toward qmail, probably because it "feels" more geeky, what ever that means...
Finally, and this a bit more on topic, and might be worth discussing on the list, has anyone written up a nice comparison of ezmlm and Mailman? I guess the best it to install qmail and give it a try, but anything that might save some time, or might not be obvious from brief testing would be helpful. I lik Mailman a lot (but I'm worried it might make this old Perl programmer have to learn Python ;).
Thanks,
Bill Moseley mailto:moseley@hank.org