Mail Handlers

[Chris Zwilling]

My 2 bits:

Sendmail is nice if you have an acoustically coupled 300 baud modem to
help configure it...

I've started configuring q-mail several times - it seemed easy, just too
many options to wade through in 10 minutes.

Postfix is very easy to configure for one domain.  It has VERY nice spam
filtering capabilities.  I've gone from zero -> compiled -> configured
in less than 10 minutes.

The others I've heard good and bad things about but all in all just
hersay.

> My Exchange server lost it's mind again this weekend and decided nobody had
> any licenses to connect.  I simply pithed the licensing service and it's back
> to normal, but it does argue that it's getting time to move away from that
> eight year old technology.
>
> Since I've moved away from the Outlook client, I also no longer have the
> ability to write server-side filters, which I want, and I've never had any
> spam filters on the local box.  I run procmail/sanatizer/spamassasin/sendmail
> on a remote box and it does very well.
>
> I'm pretty used to setting up and running sendmail, but I'm concerned about
> the ability to store messages efficiently - I tend to archive several thousand
> on my server, although for only a handful of accounts.
>
> I also like the idea that there's a server that allows mail accounts without
> the need to set up shell accounts.  That would be nice for multi-homed systems
> where I'd like to pass out mailboxes for members but don't want the hassle of
> shell accounts.
>
> Discussion/suggestions?  I'll be pulling mail in with fetchmail from my "real"
> servers.
>
> Here's a brief list from the Hampshire LUG:
>
> >sendmail - argh - run away!
> >exim - nice, easy config
> >postfix - powerful, modular, harder to config
> >qmail - bliss.
> >courierimap - no hassle.
>
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