Re: [LUG] MTAs - Sendmail, Postfix or EXIM??

["Philip Radford" <phil@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi David,

Many thanks. You are a star. I have to confess that I did not try the
obvious and just see if the PHP scripts carried on working. Well it is
friday!!

On our server here I have now noticed that 'usr/sbin/sendmail' is still
there after installing Postfix even though I have fully removed the sendmail
rpm. So this confirms what you said.

I think I'll stick with Postfix for the time being and look into EXIM as a
future task. BTW do you recall the current stable version of Postfix as our
machine did have v1.11.11 which seemed rather out of date. So I installed
2.2.3 which is the latest RPM I can find.

Many thanks.

Regards
Philip Radford.

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Johnson" <dj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, July 01, 2005 2:21 PM
Subject: Re: [LUG] MTAs - Sendmail, Postfix or EXIM??


> On Friday 01 July 2005 13:52, Philip Radford wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > We are currently using sendmail as our predefined choice of MTA. However
I
> > have been reading around and sendmail gets quite a grilling.
> >
> > To date I have now found Postfix and EXIM. Can anyone point me in the
right
> > direction as to which is the better MTA to use in terms of running a web
> > server (performance and security wise) and more specifically how I can
get
> > the PHP engine on Apache to reference these new MTAs as it appears to
only
> > like talking to sendmail.
> >
>
> I think Exim and Postfix are quite similar in terms of performance and
> security. I currently run Postfix which is wonderful to administer and
> configure. I'm about to experiment with Exim and may switch to it soon if
I
> like it.
>
> PHP doesn't need to know about the MTA: both Exim and Postfix provide a
> 'sendmail' executable which is 100% compatible with the real sendmail, so
PHP
> won't know the difference.
>
> HTH,
> David.
>
>
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