[NCLUG] MTA

[Quent Johnson]

On 11/29/12 18:22, Aaron D. Johnson wrote:
> Steve Wolf writes:
>> So far I've been able to ignore my server's MTA configuration, but
>> the company I'm using to email my RSS feed has gone belly-up and I
>> want to convert to a mailer on my server.
>>
>> Should I choose sendmail, postfix, or exim?  Why?  Please, no
>> religious wars here. :-)
>
> MMDF!
>
> /me runs and hides
>
> Actually, while exim will probably do everything you're likely to
> need, I prefer Postfix.  Mostly because I learned it first and never
> felt a need to learn exim.  Either is greatly preferable to sendmail.
>
> Postfix's pros:
>
> - Reasonable config file format.  sendmail is quite ... baroque.
>    (Yes, the m4 config is better, but I always feel like I need to
>    double check a reference manual when making anything more than the
>    most trivial changes in there.)
> - Minimal configuration is needed to get it working.
>    ("dpkg-reconfigure -pmedium" should get you a working configuration
>    quite quickly on a Debian-derived distro.)
> - The logs are fairly simple to understand.
> - It looks like a modern UNIX program.  It's not some alien from
>    non-planet Pluto.  (I'm looking at you, qmail.)
> - The docs at postfix.org are good.
> - It's available in your distro of choice.  (If it isn't you need a
>    better distro.)
> - Plenty of NCLUGers run it.
>
> What else could you possibly want?  :)
>
> - Aaron

+1 on Postfix.


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