Cloves Pereira Costa Jr wrote: > First I want to apologize because English is not my native language. > > I want to know your opinion in witch e-mail server is "better": Sendmail > or Postfix? > > I want to know because I'll have to implement a e-mail server in my > company and I made some research and find that those two e-mail servers > are most used. > > My minimum cenario is: > - about 50 mail boxes > - LDAP integrated > - users quota > - Anti-SPAM (obviously) > - support to POP, IMAP and SMTP Sendmail and Postfix are SMTP servers. As such, they only form part of the solution. You will need separate packages for POP, IMAP, LDAP, spam filtering, etc. I don't have any opinion on which one is better, as I've only ever used sendmail (when I had to make this choice, it was sendmail versus smail). Whichever option you choose, spend time learning the software before putting it into production use. Running a mail server isn't like running a web server. First, the contents of a web server are normally supposed to be public, while email is normally considered confidential. Any security flaws are potentially much more serious with email. Second, a malfunctioning web server will only affect people who try to use it, while a malfunctioning mail server risks inconveniencing a far wider audience. You can get onto an anti-spam blacklist (or even several of them) in minutes; getting off usually takes a lot longer. -- Glynn Clements <glynn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
