Which mailserver do you run?

Submitted by GoodTimes on Tue 20 Jun 2006

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sendmail  <-> 9%75 votes
postfix  <-> 48%393 votes
exim  <-> 22%187 votes
courier  <-> 1%16 votes
cyrus  <-> 1%9 votes
qmail  <-> 7%63 votes
none  <-> 9%74 votes
Total 817 votes

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#1
Re: Which mailserver do you run?
Posted by mcortese (213.70.xx.xx) on Tue 20 Jun 2006 at 20:23
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Where is the "Other..." choice? :-)
I use masqmail, that silently keeps a queue of outgoing messages until I go online.

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#2
Re: Which mailserver do you run?
Posted by Anonymous (217.216.xx.xx) on Wed 21 Jun 2006 at 03:42
And where is the "several of them" option?

I run servers with postfix, exim or qmail

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#3
Re: Which mailserver do you run?
Posted by Anonymous (213.164.xx.xx) on Wed 21 Jun 2006 at 08:45
Why do you use a mixture?

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#4
Re: Which mailserver do you run?
Posted by Kellen (82.32.xx.xx) on Wed 21 Jun 2006 at 12:31
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Administrators like to make things hard for themselves.

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#9
Re: Which mailserver do you run?
Posted by Anonymous (217.216.xx.xx) on Thu 22 Jun 2006 at 04:59
Q.- Why do you use a mixture?

A.- A bunch of servers running in several companies running different 'Linuxes' and better to keep them in their current status than migrate :)

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#7
Re: Which mailserver do you run?
Posted by mar (89.102.xx.xx) on Wed 21 Jun 2006 at 23:15
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me too.

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#5
Re: Which mailserver do you run?
Posted by Anonymous (62.254.xx.xx) on Wed 21 Jun 2006 at 13:29
On one server i use qmail/courier for everything apart from locally delivered mails, which i believe exim4 does for me. I chose qmail originally a few years ago as there was a decent guide at www.qmailrocks.org.
Since then I have seen the few articles here and on another few sites about email setup, so next time I maybe go with exim4 or postfix.

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#6
Re: Which mailserver do you run?
Posted by matej (158.193.xx.xx) on Wed 21 Jun 2006 at 15:38
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Excuse my ignorance, but I wonder why is Exim default mailserver when most people use Postfix... (for a long time). See QA/Popcon graphs for exim and postfix.

For reference, here is sendmail, courier, cyrus-common and qmail-src. Note that qmail has to be compiled and qmail-src might not be used so often... so check upgrades (the "recent" filed). Also, many qmail-lovers will download vanilla qmail and patch it themselves.

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#8
Re: Which mailserver do you run?
Posted by Steve (62.30.xx.xx) on Thu 22 Jun 2006 at 00:00
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This poll doesn't have enough votes to be significant ...

But the explaination is that the choice for exim was made a long time ago when the choices were fewer.

Since then the choice to upgrade from exim3 to exim4 was much easier to make than to change to something else. Especially when people get very vocal on the subject.

Changing the default server would take a very good rationale - especially when Debian handles the installation of replacement packages so easily.

Steve

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#10
Re: Which mailserver do you run?
Posted by matej (158.193.xx.xx) on Thu 22 Jun 2006 at 06:47
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If the trend continues, you can propose Debian vote. I'd second it ASAP but I'm not a DD...

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#11
Re: Which mailserver do you run?
Posted by Steve (62.30.xx.xx) on Thu 22 Jun 2006 at 08:23
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No, I use exim4 ;)

Steve

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#12
Re: Which mailserver do you run?
Posted by daemon (146.231.xx.xx) on Thu 22 Jun 2006 at 13:41
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However, if you instead compare the graph for exim4:

http://people.debian.org/~igloo/popcon-graphs/index.php?packages= exim4

to the graph for postfix, you'll see that exim clearly beats postfix, even if you only take the "vote" disply into consideration. Seeing as exim4 is the current package version, it's a more representative comparison...

Cheers.

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#13
Re: Which mailserver do you run?
Posted by matej (158.193.xx.xx) on Thu 22 Jun 2006 at 17:03
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Mea culpa... I run Postfix and I wasn't even aware of exim4 pkg... And I'd swear that when I searched for exim throught web there was just plain exim pkg. Now the web shows plethora of packages -- I must have been blind.

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#14
Re: Which mailserver do you run?
Posted by daemon (198.54.xx.xx) on Thu 22 Jun 2006 at 20:48
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You're not the only one, but there seems to have been, over the last couple of years, a revision of the naming scheme's used, and I have to say that, while I can see the reasons for it, at the trivial, semi-consious, "huh?" level I've found it quite annoying...

Why wasn't "exim" called "exim3", and why is bind version 8 just called "bind" whereas I have to specify "bind9" if I want the more recent major version??

I guess that the repository will always be in a state of flux, somewhat, so these kinds of things can be put down to teething problems that are still be worked out ;-)

Cheers.

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#15
Re: Which mailserver do you run?
Posted by yaarg (62.49.xx.xx) on Fri 23 Jun 2006 at 13:16
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Exim 4 and Dovecot.

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#16
Re: Which mailserver do you run?
Posted by Wayne (82.144.xx.xx) on Fri 23 Jun 2006 at 18:44
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I use 5

Postfix
Exim4
Surgemail
Imail
Mdaemon

I'm currently in the process of migrating Imail and Mdaemon into Postfix.

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#17
Re: Which mailserver do you run?
Posted by fugit (199.2.xx.xx) on Fri 23 Jun 2006 at 19:44
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As someone else noted it would be nice to have postfix as the default. Did have sendmail internal and postfix for external mail gateways. Have since migrated everyting to Debian with postfix. :-) 3 cheers

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#18
Re: Which mailserver do you run?
Posted by Anonymous (62.163.xx.xx) on Sat 24 Jun 2006 at 14:31
Is the question: which smtp server do you run?
I run Postfix
Is the question which pop3/imap server do you run?
I run cyrus

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