Re: suggestions for a good MTA?

[Shyamal Prasad <shyamal.prasad@sbcglobal.net>]

    "Tom" == Tom Anderson <granite217@yahoo.com> writes:

    Tom> I need some suggestions on a good MTA for a workstation.
    Tom> Here's what I'd like for it to be able to handle.

    Tom> 1. Immediate delivery of local mail (messages from daemons,
    Tom> etc)... in other words I'd like to avoid shipping it off to
    Tom> my ISP, since I'm just going to turn around and re-fetch it.
    Tom> No address rewriting should occur in this case, because that
    Tom> makes it harder to see "at a glance" that it was local.

    Tom> 2. Forward outgoing mail to a smarthost, after rewriting the
    Tom> addresses as appropriate.

    Tom> The hard part seems to be selective rewriting.  Everything
    Tom> I've looked at seems to either want to forward everything
    Tom> (nullmailer), or rewrite no matter what (exim, etc.).  Is
    Tom> there anything which can handle this?

I'm not sure I understand the problem you found with exim. The default
Debian Woody install of exim with the 'smarthost' option seems to do
exactly what you list above as (1) and (2). So what does 'rewrite no
matter what' imply here?

Cheers!
Shyamal