Cyrus + (insert Best MTA here) Suggestions

[Ow Mun Heng]

On Thu, 2004-11-18 at 22:06, John Madden wrote:
> > 	I'm curious on why I'm seeing more references to postfix (both here and
> > on googling) when setting up an email server (scalable/high
> > performance/etc).
> 
> I can personally vouch for Postfix's performance and relative ease of
> administration.  

I personally know sendmail and it's user-friendliness, compared to
Sendmail.

> The number of performance-enhancing knobs to turn is
> nearly baffling

But some has stated that it's not as tweakble compared to Sendmail. One
guy stated he needed sendmail's check_rcpt and check_mail, to basically
use LDAP lookups to check whether to relay or not.

> , it's incredibly reliable, quite tolerant of the shoddy
> SMTP implementations (Exchange, for example) out there, and has a very
> good track record security-wise.



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Ow Mun Heng
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