On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 01:55:59PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: > I'm seting up a new woody box for my wife to use. I need a recomendation on > an easy to set up, reliable MTA. > > Heres the setup, the box will realy all outgoing mail through a local ISP. > It will run fetchmail to retireve mail from that ISP, which will then call > procmail to use SpamBouncer, which will in turn call the MTA to deliver > mall to a local mailbaox. It will be read using elm (or perhaps mutt). > > I would think this was a failry common stup. > > Oh, BTW user names on the local box do not map directly to user names at > teh ISP, so I need for the MTA to rewrite the sender on the way out, and I > need for it to understamd that mail for, say, sandib@xxx.com is really for > the local user sandi. > > Thanks for any sugestions on this, as this Christmas present is runig a bit > behind schedule, and I'm getting a lot of flack from te local user > community :-) > I'd recommend qmail (fast, reliable, secure) or postfix (fast, reliable, secure, easy to configure (or so I'v heard - haven't tried it yet)). http://cr.yp.to/qmail.html, http://www.lifewithqmail.org/ http://www.postfix.org/ m&f (Did you hear that? Sounds like a flamewar coming) -- The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men but that we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway.
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