Camaleón wrote:
On Fri, 16 Sep 2011 15:00:22 -0700, patk.1034 wrote: (...)Since 'here' is where Debian-ites 'live', I'd like to ask for experienced opinioins. Specifically in a Debian-server world, why one over the other?
One thing to consider is what ELSE you're going to be running on your mail server - antispam, antivirus, list server, archiver, etc.; how well those integrate with exim vs. postfix vs. whatever; how well documented various combinations are; how much support is available; etc.
For what it's worth, my own experience:On my production mail servers, I've ended up with postfox+amavisd+spamassassin+clamav for generic mail processing; sympa as a mailing list manager; and uw-imapd for mailboxes. Getting all the pieces wired together tends to be just a bit tricky - and I've found that most of the documentation and howto writeups seem to focus on postfix. It also seems to be a lot easier to get help on the various lists if one is running postfix (though Weitse can be a bit crusty in response to stupid or simple questions on the postfix list - along the lines of RTFM responses; perhaps justified because the documentation is very good).
On other servers (physical and virtual), where mail is installed only so server jobs can send mail to sysadmin (on another machine), I just do the default, minimal exim install - it's simple, just works, and needs absolutely no maintenance.
Miles Fidelman -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In<fnord> practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra