Subject: Re: qmail or postfix ??
From: Jason Jeremias (jason@penguinsolutions.com)
Date: Tue Apr 29 2003 - 20:37:03 AKDT
I agree Damien, I too am a Postfix fan and would recommend it to
anyone. Its simple and secure and maintains good compatibility with the
sendmail stuff (ie aliases, .forward, etc...) which makes it pretty easy
to switch from Sendmail to Postfix. Great program.
-J
Damien Hull wrote:
>It seems that there are a few people on the list that are running their
>own mail server. I know a few people have been pushing Qmail but the
>other option is Postfix.
>
>Why Postfix? Well, all you need to do is install it, configure the
>domain it excepts mail for and your done.
>
>You can setup spam filters just like you do in Qmail. You can also setup
>virtual accounts like Qmail.
>
>Virtual accounts are nice but if you only have a small number of users
>why bother. If your the sys admin you are only creating more work for
>your self.
>
>Another tip to setting up a mail server or any other server is webmin. I
>see a lot of people configuring servers from the command line. That's
>good practice but why do that when you can install webmin and point and
>click your way to a server in a mater of minutes instead of hours.
>
>I've managed Postfix on Linux and FreeBSD with out any problems.
>
>
>
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