[ale] Best MTA?

[Robert Reese]

Hi Thomas,

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On 5/15/2006 at 9:36 PM Thomas Stromberg wrote:

>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. :)

Oh, boy, there sure are a lot of 4 letter acronyms there!

I'm very glad you brought this to my attention.  I was under the impression the MTAs did both incoming and outgoing.  As you point out, separating out the incoming from the outgoing means an easier life when you decide to ditch one of them.

As for Cyrus, and IMAP in general, once it is set up and running how tricky is it to maintain?


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

Oh my!  There's some serious credentials behind those recommendations. :)

Thanks for the input... here we go a-Googling...

Robert~

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