preferred sendmail replacement?
We need a sendmail replacement (for Solaris) that is fast. Someone had tried to get Qmail working with Mailman, but did not have success.
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?
Thanks in advance.
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.
-- Jon Parise (jon@csh.rit.edu) :: http://www.csh.rit.edu/~jon/
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 ...
Indeed!
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.
I'll second the recommendation for Postfix (and I think that Mailman development is done on Postfix as well).
I use Postfix on small boxes with one user (ie my own), as well as machines with upwards of 25k users, and on FreeBSD, Linux, and Solaris 8. I'm very happy with its performance, ease of use, flexibility and ease of installation / Sendmail compatibility. It also has a great (and helpful) user community.
I'm not a big fan of qmail, although I've used it in the past. See http://lifewithoutqmail.org/.
Exim would also be worth looking into.
-- Will Yardley input: william < @ hq . newdream . net . >
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.
-- Jon Parise (jon@csh.rit.edu) :: http://www.csh.rit.edu/~jon/
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