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Postfixing your mail server

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Ars Technica; By Ryan Paul, Ian Smith-Heisters, Matt Mondock 		Mail this story
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Years removed from the original release of Postfix, the Unix-based mail server is still serving oodles of people every day. As a great alternative to Microsoft Exchange and the predecessor to crazy uncle Sendmail, Postfix is becoming the Linux mail server of choice, and is the SMTP mail transfer agent for Mac OS X Server. Sendmail may have a larger market share in the Linux community, but Postfix has a much simpler setup and is good for users who do not want to spend a lot of time configuring a mail server.

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slippery ·
I switched from Sendmail to Postfix about one year after Postfix was open sourced. It is so much simpler to configure, even for complex mail routing, and is designed for high security. I have nothing against Sendmail, it's just clunky to work with compared to Postfix.
tuxchick ·
I agree that Postfix is great. Some additional pluses are it is well-documented, and the Postfix community is quite civilized. Some years ago I was evaluating both Postfix and Qmail, and was leaning towards Qmail because it handles higher loads (don't know if that is still true), but the Qmail community was so hostile I went with Postfix. What a bunch of flaming lunatics- it was quite extreme. I hear it's better now.

Exim is also very nice. I like having a lot of good choices.

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