Re: Sendmail vs. Postfix vs. ?

[Steven Pritchard <steve@silug.org>]

On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 02:05:13AM -0500, Ken Keefe wrote:
> I am going to begin working on an email server for a group ranging from
> 50 to 500 people. I have not previously worked with any kind of mail
> server and I wanted to get your opinions on which server to use. My
> understanding is that sendmail is pretty much the standard, but Mandrake
> seems to prefer Postfix. Then again, for all I know, they could be the
> same thing! 

Postfix has some major advantages, the biggest being regex-based
header and body checks.  I only use sendmail for some older systems
(legacy stuff) and systems where I'm too lazy to change the default
(because they never handle mail :).

I'm using the following setup, mostly because it requires almost no
non-Core components on a Fedora box:

  * Postfix + amavisd-new (+ clamd + spamassassin) for incoming mail
    (delivering to Maildir)
  * Dovecot (configured for Maildir) for IMAP and/or POP3
  * Squirrelmail for webmail

Courier-IMAP works nicely also (it supports POP3).  Lots of people
seem to like Cyrus also, but it seems a bit heavy for my tastes.

If you want to set all this up, let me know...  I started writing up a
howto document a while back, but I never quite finished it...

Steve
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