[WBEL-users] Postfix or Sendmail

[Olivier Brugman]

On Tue, 2004-03-30 at 14:25, Milan Keršláger wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 09:19:35AM +0200, Karl-König Königsson wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On my first mail server I ran sendmail and that worked fine. On my 
> > server's second incarnation I decided on Postfix and that ran fine, too. 
> > I am now in the process of setting up the third version of my company's 
> > server and can not decide on which MTA to use.
> > 
> > I have a couple of virtual domains; I use IMAP and POP currently and 
> > would like to use SSL for these at some stage. I do not use the mail 
> > server as outgoing SMTP but would possibly like to do so in the future, 
> > using some sort of authentication.
> > 
> > So, as you can see I have a fairly basic setup with a few more advanced 
> > options on the wish list.
> > 
> > Any feedback on the setup? Sendmail or Postfix? Pros and Cons?
> 
> Postfix is more secure. Sendmail is big ball with big holes (at least in
> the past).

Simon Mudd has built some very fine RPM's for Postfix.

See: http://postfix.wl0.org/en/

HTH,
Olivier Brugman