---+ Server Software Home for lists and debates of which software is going to be run on the InternetServer. -- %MAINWEB%.BillMcGonigle - 20 Feb 2006 ---+++ MTA Votes for: * Sendmail * Main.MikeLedoux * postfix * Main.BillMcGonigle * qmail * exim * Main.ColeTuininga Experience with (admin level): * Sendmail * Main.BillMcGonigle * Main.ColeTuininga (not in a long time though) * Main.MikeLedoux * Main.BruceDawson * postfix * Main.BillMcGonigle * Main.MikeLedoux * qmail * Main.BillMcGonigle * Main.MikeLedoux (brief, switched back to sendmail after 4-5 months) * exim * Main.ColeTuininga Reasons for: * Sendmail * Installed by default -- Main.BillMcGonigle - 20 Feb 2006 * Would be useful to relearn to use it since it is fairly ubiquitous. -- Main.ColeTuininga - 21 Feb 2006 * postfix * Resonably easy to configure for most anything you can think of. Support from most 3rd party packages (notably mailman). Fast. -- Main.BillMcGonigle - 20 Feb 2006 * qmail * exim * Highly configurable, configuration quite readable, easy to configure. -- Main.ColeTuininga - 21 Feb 2006 Reasons against: * Sendmail * Limiting - hard to do handstands. Slow. Most people can only work in .mc -- Main.BillMcGonigle - 20 Feb 2006 * Cryptic to configure. -- Main.ColeTuininga - 21 Feb 2006 * postfix * qmail * Bizzare patch-acceptance policy and license. Good installs typically require lots of 3rd party patches of variable quality. -- Main.BillMcGonigle - 20 Feb 2006 * exim * Not a lot of 3rd party support; needs wrappers for some common tasks. -- Main.BillMcGonigle - 20 Feb 2006 * Bill - can you elaborate on these? -- Main.ColeTuininga - 21 Feb 2006 * Not as widely known, fewer admins tend to be familiar with it. -- Main.ColeTuininga - 21 Feb 2006 ---+++ Anti-Spam Votes for: * !MailScanner * Main.BillMcGonigle * !AMaVIS * !SpamAssassin * Main.ColeTuininga * Main.MikeLedoux * Spamhaus rbl(s) * Main.ColeTuininga * Main.BruceDawson (Not necessarily Spamhaus) Experience with (admin level): * !MailScanner * Main.BillMcGonigle * !AMaVIS * !SpamAssassin * Main.ColeTuininga * Main.MikeLedoux * !RBLs * Main.ColeTuininga * Main.BruceDawson Reasons for: * !MailScanner * Easy to configure, modify configuration, very flexible. Auto-updates for !ClamAV, !RulesDuJour. Integrates !SpamAssassin without separate daemon. Disarms spam, phishing, viruses, "active" HTML mail. -- Main.BillMcGonigle - 20 Feb 2006 * !AMaVIS * !SpamAssassin * Easily configured, low maintenance, good results, low-to-zero false-positives. -- Main.MikeLedoux - 21 Feb 2006 * !RBLs * Someone else does the bulk of the work -- Main.BruceDawson - 22 Feb 2006 * Have a small footprint on the system -- Main.BruceDawson - 22 Feb 2006 * Catch 90% of the SPAM. -- Main.BruceDawson - 22 Feb 2006 Reasons against: * !MailScanner * Somewhat CPU intensive. I've never seen decent hardware CPU bound by it though. -- Main.BillMcGonigle - 20 Feb 2006 * !AMaVIS * !RBLs * The lists are maintained by others -- Main.BruceDawson - 22 Feb 2006 * Some discriminate against dynamic and other large block of IPs. -- Main.BruceDawson - 22 Feb 2006
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