Hi Everyone

i am using redhat 9 and fedora

i am somewhat new to linux.i know only basics in

linux.But my assignment is to setup one mail server

Which one is eaiser qmail or sendmail ?

Whichone is Secured qmail or sendmail ?

Helping in this isuue will be great

Thanks & Regards
winxandlinx

if it's purely down to being easier, qmail. sendmail is notoriously horrible to configure. it's so horrible there are two configuration files, one to configure the configuration file...

I suggest you postfix!
If you need any configuration informations, just ask

oh please don't turn this into yet another popularity contest. i repfer postifx too, but that wasn't what was asked and qmail and sendmail are both extremely good MTA's

Just to be contrary, I'd advise using something else entirely. Sendmail, apart from being notoriously difficult to configure, also has a bad history of security holes. Qmail is very fast, but as far as I'm aware it isn't really updated any more. The original version is not open source, so fixes have to made in the form of separate patches and addons, which can get pretty annoying to manage. It also has some bad default behaviour, for example it does accept-then-bounce rather than inline rejection of unrecognised addresses.

Try reading up on exim or postfix instead.

EDIT: okay, a little late responding, sorry for the "popularity contest" nature of the post. I actually use qmail, but if I were setting things up again I would not have chosen to use it. Hopefully the reasons I gave for this will be useful.

Sendmail is the best to test a mailserver

Hi,

Postfix for big server and huge site, exim for workstation is good.

cheers.