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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
- Installed by default -- BillMcGonigle - 20 Feb 2006
- Would be useful to relearn to use it since it is fairly ubiquitous. -- 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. -- BillMcGonigle - 20 Feb 2006
- qmail
- exim
- Highly configurable, configuration quite readable, easy to configure. -- ColeTuininga - 21 Feb 2006
Reasons against:
- Sendmail
- Limiting - hard to do handstands. Slow. Most people can only work in .mc -- BillMcGonigle - 20 Feb 2006
- Cryptic to configure. -- ColeTuininga - 21 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
- 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
Anti-Spam
Votes for:
- MailScanner
- AMaVIS
- SpamAssassin
- Spamhaus rbl(s)
Experience with (admin level):
- MailScanner
- AMaVIS
- SpamAssassin
- RBLs
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
- SpamAssassin
- Easily configured, low maintenance, good results, low-to-zero false-positives. -- MikeLedoux - 21 Feb 2006
- RBLs
- Someone else does the bulk of the work -- BruceDawson - 22 Feb 2006
- Have a small footprint on the system -- BruceDawson - 22 Feb 2006
- Catch 90% of the SPAM. -- BruceDawson - 22 Feb 2006
Reasons against:
- MailScanner
- Somewhat CPU intensive. I've never seen decent hardware CPU bound by it though. -- BillMcGonigle - 20 Feb 2006
- AMaVIS
- RBLs
- The lists are maintained by others -- BruceDawson - 22 Feb 2006
- Some discriminate against dynamic and other large block of IPs. -- BruceDawson - 22 Feb 2006