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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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