Experiences with Mail servers

[Lloyd H. Meinholz]

On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 09:24, Chris Mason wrote:
> You advice is well received and the linked HOWTO is excellent. However, I
> don’t know if I want to move to postfix, is ther eany reason to do this, and
> if I don’t, what would be different in configuring sendmail to deliver to
> the dovecot maildir format?

I would move to postfix because I think it is more secure (or at least
it has a better security track record), better designed and is easier to
configure (just compare the postfix vs. sendmail O'Reilly books). :)
Postfix "wraps" sendmail programs so that it is easier to use as a
sendmail replacement than something like qmail. RHEL (not sure about
fedora) has an easy way to swith MTA's with redhat-switch-mail.

However, if you think sendmail is secure enough for you and you are
comfortable enough with configuring sendmail, then there probably isn't
a good reason to switch.

I think you should probably be able to use sendmail without problem, but
I haven't done this. You probably just need to change the mbox to
maildir format.

You can probably google more accurate and well thought out MTA
comparisons than mine though.

Lloyd


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