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please suggest me please for a mail server in FC5.
if sendmail is better? or postfix or Exim?
please answer in a Details and please send me a setep by step Configuration for the best mail service.
Distribution: Fedora, RHEL 4 and 5, Ubuntu 7 and AIX
Posts: 12
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Most people I talk to recommend Postfix over sendmail for increased functionality and ease-of-use (including an RHCA guy I spoke to on a course) - see http://www.postfix.org/start.html for everything you need to know, I'm sure you'll find your step-by-step guide on there or google...
I had very good experience deploying postfix on Centos.. But I used the vanilla built-in postfix v2.3 that came with Centos. Runs perfect, never had any problems after running it close to 2 years now.
I would recommended you to use Qmail as mail server. once its configured we will find the difference from other Linux Mta.
qmail parallelizes mail delivery, performing up to 20 deliveries simultaneously, by default.
Some of the advantages of qmail over vendor-provided MTA's include:
Once qmail accepts a message, it guarantees that it won't be lost. qmail also supports a new mailbox format that works reliably even over NFS without locking.
I have configured qmailrocks 3 times in a row and found same problem
"RELAY"
My server is used by someone to send spam to someone else.
I can't stop this RELAY
Also the online documentation on qmailrocks.org is not sufficient on topic of RELAY.
I have configured qmailrocks 3 times in a row and found same problem
"RELAY"
My server is used by someone to send spam to someone else.
I can't stop this RELAY
Also the online documentation on qmailrocks.org is not sufficient on topic of RELAY.
Any comments???
I found several references to turning off/restricting relay access on their site, and on Google. Seems fairly easy to do...
stop qmail using "qmailctl stop" command, then add aliases into /etc/tcp.smtp file
for example :
echo '172.16,allow,RELAYCLIENT=""' >> /etc/tcp.smtp
this will allow relay from anybody on 172.16.*
then rebuild qmail config.database using "qmailctl cdb" command, then start qmail "qmailctl start"
please suggest me please for a mail server in FC5.
if sendmail is better? or postfix or Exim?
please answer in a Details and please send me a setep by step Configuration for the best mail service.
regards
What is better is largely a matter of first function and second opinion.
If your mail server is sending 2m mail a day your considerations are going to be significantly different than if you're sending a half dozen mail a day. Someone dealing with virtual domains for 100 sites and someone dealing with 1 domain are going to have different requirements too.
I've personally used exim, postfix, qmail, and sendmail (and dozens of less known MTAs) extensively for many years and I can guarantee you that they all have their high points and low points, but they are all functional mail transport agents able to do just about anything you are willing to spend the time to configure.
To make a good suggestion we need information about the planned usage of the mta. If your usage is fairly normal any of them are going to be more than able to do the job.
I would suggest reading the tutorials on http://www.howtoforge.com/ as a starting point or read information about the goals of each of the mail clients on their home page or Wikipedia articles.
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