[ale] Best MTA?

[Thomas Stromberg]

On 15 maj 2006, at 21.19, Philip Polstra wrote:

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> On 5/15/06, Robert Reese <ale at sixit.com> wrote:
> I have FC4, SuSE 8.x, 9.3, and (sorta) 10, and rather old FreeBSD  
> in the box (circa 2002).  I'm wonder what everyone thought of  
> Sendmail, Postfix, QMail, and Exim, as well as any others you can  
> think of?  I was going to use a LAMP server but was told to keep my  
> servers seperate.  As this thread will surely end up helping  
> others, please do consider posting responses geared for any  
> technical level.  As for me, I'm a *complete* newbie, (as in "what  
> the hell is *grep*????)
>
> My vote would be for Postfix.  That is what I use for my private  
> domain.

I second the vote for Postfix being the easiest to work with. Since  
you're coming from the non-UNIX world of mail servers, you may want  
to keep in mind that these servers are only MTA's (Mail Transfer  
Agents), and only serve SMTP and SMTPS. If you wish to have POP3 or  
IMAP, you will need to build onto it with something like cyrus,  
cucipop, courier-imap, etc. The advantage to the UNIX approach here  
is that if you hate your POP3 server, you don't have to throw away  
your favorite SMTP server. For IMAP, I like Cyrus best, but it may  
also be tricky to get up and running. :)

-- a former zmailer,  qmail, sendmail, and postfix admin.. (and have  
played with exim). 

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