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BillMcGonigle - 20 Feb 2006
MTA
Votes for:
- Sendmail
- postfix
- qmail
- exim
Experience with (admin level):
- Sendmail
- postfix
- qmail
- exim
Reasons for:
- Sendmail
- 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
- qmail
- exim
Reasons against:
- Sendmail
- Limiting - hard to do handstands. Slow. Most people can only work in .mc -- BillMcGonigle - 20 Feb 2006
- postfix
- qmail
- Bizzare patch-acceptance policy and license. Good installs typically require lots of 3rd party patches of variable quality. -- BillMcGonigle - 20 Feb 2006
- exim
- Not a lot of 3rd party support; needs wrappers for some common tasks. -- BillMcGonigle - 20 Feb 2006
Anti-Spam
Votes for:
Experience with (admin level):
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. -- BillMcGonigle - 20 Feb 2006
- AMaVIS
Reasons against:
- MailScanner
- Somewhat CPU intensive. I've never seen decent hardware CPU bound by it though. -- BillMcGonigle - 20 Feb 2006
- AMaVIS