Admin Preference

• Sendmail
  • MikeLedoux
  • BenScott - Migrate Sendail from Rogue to Liberty first, then look at switching
• postfix
  • BillMcGonigle
• qmail
• exim
  • ColeTuininga

Admin Experience

• Sendmail
  • BillMcGonigle
  • ColeTuininga (not in a long time though)
  • MikeLedoux
  • BruceDawson
  • BenScott
• postfix
  • BillMcGonigle
  • MikeLedoux
• qmail
  • BillMcGonigle
  • MikeLedoux (brief, switched back to sendmail after 4-5 months)
• exim
  • ColeTuininga

Discussion

Sendmail

• Installed by default -- BillMcGonigle - 20 Feb 2006
• Would be useful to relearn to use it since it is fairly ubiquitous. -- ColeTuininga - 21 Feb 2006
• This is what we're using now, on Rogue. -- BenScott - 23 Feb 2006
• Limiting - hard to do handstands. Slow. Most people can only work in .mc -- BillMcGonigle - 20 Feb 2006
• Cryptic to configure. -- ColeTuininga - 21 Feb 2006
  • While I fully agree that sendmail.cf is akin to assembly language, the .mc config file isn't too bad. -- BenScott - 23 Feb 2006

postfix

• Resonably easy to configure for most anything you can think of. Support from most 3rd party packages (notably mailman). Fast. -- BillMcGonigle - 20 Feb 2006
• Included with RHEL/CentOS. Supported. -- BenScott - 23 Feb 2006

qmail

• Bizzare patch-acceptance policy and license. Good installs typically require lots of 3rd party patches of variable quality. -- BillMcGonigle - 20 Feb 2006
• Not included with or supported by CentOS. -- BenScott - 23 Feb 2006

exim

• Highly configurable, configuration quite readable, easy to configure. -- ColeTuininga - 21 Feb 2006
  • Not a lot of 3rd party support; needs wrappers for some common tasks. -- BillMcGonigle - 20 Feb 2006
    • Bill - can you elaborate on these? -- ColeTuininga - 21 Feb 2006
• Not as widely known, fewer admins tend to be familiar with it. -- ColeTuininga - 21 Feb 2006
• Not included with or supported by CentOS. -- BenScott - 23 Feb 2006