[KLUG Members] exim? postfix? why not?

[Adam Bultman]

>
> spamassassin is attractive for filtering the flattering ads in our
> incoming mail. I'm planning to switch the whole family to my mail server
> when I get this up running. Anyone using it with exim or postfix?
>

Depending on how your mail gets delivered to your box will change how
spamassassin works with sendmail/postfix/qmail/exim.  If you use procmail,
you can plug it in that way.  I use that currently; it works rather well.
I set it up for myself and a few coworkers because they were getting such
large amounts of spam it was getting unmanagable.


> Anyone here using these MTA's instead of sendmail? Any input for a guy
> getting ready to run his own mail server and wants to completely avoid
> any trouble from his ISP because a spammer exploited his server?
>

While a few people I know (ahem) would suggest that running sendmail is
the Mark of the Beast, I haven't found it to be that unmanageable at all.
Given; in some places, I don't run it as secure as I should - and I'm
working on that, believe it or not.  In the end, the relative 'security'
of any mail server depends on how you configure it.  I recently had a
friend running qmail; turns out he was an open relay.  Oops.

I've tried postfix, but it wouldn't work correctly on my openBSD box.
I've *tried* to try qmail, but it was such a hassle I decided to give up.
(and that's saying quite a bit)  So, I invested some time in sendmail, and
I've found that the cf file is easy to generate and edit, and moreover,
it's easy to run.  I'm not completely up to snuff on it's current
vulnerabilities, but I keep a watchful enough of an eye to spot abuse
within a day or so.

Anyway: I don't want to start a war here.  I'd say:  Pick one depending on
ease of install and overall, well-tempered opinions.  There's always "I
know a man who"s out there, and vociferous believers in specific ones.  I
personally don't care.  I made a decision, I'm sticking to my guns, and if
it works, and I'm not getting abused, well, I'm not gonna change.


Adam