[ale] Best MTA?

[Robert Reese]

Hi Jim,

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On 5/15/2006 at 10:43 PM Jim Popovitch wrote:

>Thomas Stromberg wrote:
>> On 15 maj 2006, at 21.19, Philip Polstra wrote:
>>>
>>> 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. 
>
>I have to "third" this.  I've been a very long time sendmail fan, and 
>still am for certain situations.  However, the ease with which postfix 
>works is just simply magical (at least with Debian).  I still use 
>sendmail for heavy volume outbound mail, but I am slowly converting 
>inbounds over to postfix.  Having said all of that.... I do like 
>sendmail's milter design, it still is superior to anything that I have 
>seen for postfix.

Thank you for your vote. :)  What is a 'milter'?   Is it some sort antispam/antivirus method? (Sorry, one of those stoopid n00b questions, I know.)

Appreciate it,
Robert~