[Asterisk-Users] SMTP MTA suggestions.

[Deon Rodden]

Laugh. I use a bare-bones install of QMail on my main asterisk server. It of
course emulates sendmail and the like.

But on my remote Asterisk server, I use ssmtp, it came as a prerequisite to
Asterisk. When I emerged asterisk, ssmtp came with it. Works great.
Configured it to use my main Asterisk server as the relay, my main asterisk
server only relays from the remote asterisk servers, and all is well. I also
have the remotes running ntpdate every 5 minutes to synchronize with ntpd
running on the main asterisk server. This way the times are in sync. 

By the time I got into Mail clients and building mail servers, sendmail was
already dying, and there was so much negativity about security, so I jumped
straight to QMail. Almost gave up on it (in favor of Exim) but then
discovered all the patches and enhancements people were continuing to make
on QMail. Gentoo has a nice QMail install.

Anyways, for maximum simplicity, I would recommend ssmtp. It works great,
gets the job done.

-----Original Message-----
From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com
[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Andrew
Kohlsmith
Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2004 7:17 AM
To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] SMTP MTA suggestions.

On October 19, 2004 05:48 am, james wrote:
> There are several replacements, but sendmail isn't any harder to config.
> You usually only need to change 3 lines in the sendmail config.

I suppose the reasons people are so anti-sendmail are several:

1. Security.  Sendmail has a track record of being Unix's most insecure MTA.
2. Confusion.  Sendmail's configuration is truly unweildy and unnecessarily 
complex.  c.f. postfix for a configuration interface that doesn't suck.
3. Size.  Why use a cannon swat a fly?  Sendmail will do everything and then

some, but this is unnecessary complexity and bloat for something as simple
as 
a forwarding-only mail server, which is generally all people want if they 
already have a world-class SMTP server doing spam/virus checking and so 
forth.

Sendmail is dead.  Long live the alternatives.

-A.
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