Sendmail vs. SMTP - - pros, cons? follow-up

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SquirrelMail 1.4.6
PHP 4.4.4
UWIMAPD (IMAP4rev1 2004.357-cpanel)
Apache 1.3.37
CentOS 4.4
Our webserver runs as nobody.
IMAP Server Address: 127.0.0.1
SMTP Server Address: 127.0.0.1
Server side sorting is enabled
Server side thread sorting is disabled
register_globals are off for my installation, but they are on for the
rest of the server
Many plugins, including: Auto Complete; Folder Synch; Select Range; etc.

I was looking for some comparison between Sendmail and SMTP for sending
outgoing mail from the server? Are there advantages of one over the other,
or disadvantages? Are there reasons why I should use one rather than the
other for SquirrelMail?

Paul and WJCarpenter replied, and I have some follow-up questions to their
replies.

On 9/26/06, WJCarpenter <bill-squirrelmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> With sendmail, you probably get a mild efficiency improvement.
>
> With sendmail, you probably get a boatload of generally tolerable
> quirky behavior.

Is there anything that would affect me as an SM user or SM administrator?
(I am not the server admin, which is run by my web host.)

I have been using SMTP for years, but recently I switched to Sendmail
because it seems to solve or at least workaround a problem that was
occurring when using SMTP.


On 9/26/06, Paul Lesniewski <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I am partial to SMTP because you get immediate feedback (on the
> compose screen) for some types (certainly not all) of errant mails

Agreed, that is a nice benefit, although not a "deal breaker" for me.

> SMTP is really nice if you do things like set up a specific port for
> your webmail senders in Postfix for which a different set of
> restrictions/filters is applicable compared to your outward-facing
> SMTP service/port.

I don't do any of that. I simply need a way for SquirrelMail to send
outgoing mail. Is there any reason I should avoid using Sendmail and
instead try to uncover the source of the problem so that I can return to
using SMTP? Or for my use, is Sendmail just as good as SMTP?

Thanks guys.





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