Re: Sendmail vs Exim vs Others

From: Lucas Albers (albersl_at_cs.montana.edu)
Date: 01/30/04

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    Steve Lamb said:

    > Sendmail - so difficult to configure the configuration language needs
    > a
    > macro language to make sense of it.
    >
    > Exim - so easy to configure that in most cases you can do it with the
    > comments in the config file.
    >
    > That's where the comperison ends for me. I've never found a need for
    > sendmail in the modern 'net populated with Postfix and Exim.

    Sendmail does a lot, the milter interface allows you to
    massage/filter/virus scan email, and reject at the 5xx level.
    With sendmail+mimedefang I can do some amazing things, set some address to
    send only, filter by any combination of sender,recipient,relay,message
    name,size,spam score,extension type, number of relay attempts,etc.

    I use postfix on all my server's clients except for my primary and
    secondary mail servers. 

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--Luke CS Sysadmin, Montana State University-Bozeman
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