On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 02:15:59PM -0700, Kiarna Boyd wrote: > So after months of planning it and hassling all of you fine generous folks > for insight, > I AM BUILDING MY NEW MAIL SERVER! > (I'm spending x-mas implementing it) > I'm a little nervous to be truthful as I have a tiny window to get it to > work right. > > So far: > Sun E220R (2- 450 mhz) 2 gig RAM 1-36 gig drive 1- 36 gig miror > Solaris 2.7 > 80 gig RAID (will be mounted /var/spool/imap) > > Planned software: > > Sendmail 8.12.1 > Cyrus 2.16 > Silkymail 1.1.2 > sleepycat 4.0.14 > > I am biting my nails over Sieve(okay I am a big chicken) > Also all those folks who suggested Postfix, I heard you and appreciated > your insight, but it was an internal head count of who knows Sendmail. (i'm > in an edu, can you tell?) > > I tried to hook up with CyrusSoft so that I won't drive you all nuts with > my questions. > But.... > > Please wish me luck and send me any last minute suggests to change the > above!
As other people suggestion, I will suggest you to use postfix instead of sendmail. For me postfix is easier to configure, and there is no security patches need to be worried of like sendmail. If you want to use sendmail, because you are afraid that some postfix binaries such as /usr/lib/sendmail, /usr/bin/newaliases, /usr/bin/mailq could be replaced accidentally when you are doing patchadd then ya just use sendmail, but if not just use postfix. Besides from the hardware configuration, it seems that you are going to serve many people. Believe me that it is less efforts configure postfix in large scale than sendmail.
