Any suggestion for mailing list mail server

[gameslover987-/E1597aS9LQAvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org (Dave Peters)]

First thing I need to say: I am not spammer. All the emails are coming from the member and they agree to receive the newsletter. We are not blocking from AOL, Yahoo or Gmail etc....
Thanks for the input and it seems I'll go to postfix.

Thanks again.

Dave


--- On Fri, 9/4/09, Kent Borg <kentborg-KwkGvOEf1og at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> From: Kent Borg <kentborg-KwkGvOEf1og at public.gmane.org>
> Subject: Re: Any suggestion for mailing list mail server
> To: "Dave Peters" <gameslover987-/E1597aS9LQAvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>
> Cc: discuss-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org
> Date: Friday, September 4, 2009, 1:47 PM
> Dave Peters a wrote:
> > Any suggestion for mailing list Mail Server? Sendmail,
> Postfix or Qmail?
> >???
> 
> I used to use qmail but gave up because it wasn't really
> maintained. The
> author is at odds with the world, he wants our whole e-mail
> system
> redesigned from scratch (he has a point) and in the
> meantime he will fix
> any security bug but otherwise isn't so interested in
> evolving qmail to
> match reality. It he will not allow anyone to release any
> version but
> his exact sources--which means anyone else's code changes
> have to be
> applied as a source patch and you recompile; your
> distribution can't do
> a nice value-add. Oh, and the qmail mailing list is grumpy
> with lots of
> RTFM responses to questions.
> 
> I didn't go to sendmail because of its bad security
> history. Yes, it got
> a big rewrite a couple years back and is reported to be
> much better, but
> the basic design was not crafted with security in mind.
> 
> So I chose postfix. It has been good. I set up spamassassin
> in a
> slightly odd way that I wish I had done differently, but
> Postfix seems nice.
> 
> Extra consideration: I am using dovecot for an IMAP server
> and I haven't
> taken the time to make spamassassin and postfix and dovecot
> all work
> together to sort suspected spam into a different junk
> mailbox for each
> user. It probably isn't that hard, but I can't say I have
> done it.
> 
> > I am not sure which one that I should use. The
> performance is most important for me and if it can send 6-7
> emails per second.
> >???
> 
> I am quite sure any of the above could keep up with 6-7
> e-mails a
> second; configure the software to allow enough concurrent
> attempts, much
> of the time will be waiting for the network and remote
> machine, but on
> average you will keep up fine...
> 
> 6-7 a second? Sustained? (Are you a spammer?) Even if you
> are not a
> spammer, it is tricky to not be identified as one. Recently
> AOL started
> blocking me again (in my backscatter days it made sense),
> they say they
> have removed the block, but I don't know why they did it
> this time. At
> least one other recent address I sent e-mail to got a
> bounce from gmail
> (I didn't know I was sending to gmail with that address)
> and is unclear
> what the problem is, a test e-mail to myself at gmail
> didn't bounce...
> 
> Running ones own e-mail server is not for the
> faint-of-heart. Even if
> you get everything humming nicely the changing landscape as
> spammers
> innovate can break you.
> 
> -kb
> 
>