Re: Evaluating MTA's
<quote who="Paul Sargent">
> Hi All,
>
>
> The machine we're replacing currently runs sendmail, but I don't want to
> go with sendmail just for that reason. Only if it's the best thing for
> the job.
>
> Does anybody have any opinions on what would be best?
> Are there any resources out there that will give me a good overview of
> all the MTAs?
the job this server is doing is extremely simple. i don't think
really any one MTA would be better over another for just forwarding
messages. I would look more into IF you want antivirus support,
what will you use, and what does that support? I use amavis(amavis.org)
with both postfix and sendmail. postfix is more simple to configure
but sendmail works just as good too. sendmail has the biggest userbase
and your likely to find better support/more documentation on it then
others. some like exim, i've never used it so i don't know how good
it works but im sure it'd be fine too.
some like qmail, which i really don't like since it seems to be
hardly maintained anymore, takes patches to even compile on modern
systems and is not available in binary format with debian due
to licensing(or something). also last i looked it did not include
controls on incoming email. so if system load got to 40 or 50 qmail
would still happily accept and queue email, and just make the
load higher.
i used sendmail for a long time, i like it, i have been recently
migrating to postfix though since it is generally easier to
configure, and has some more anti spam stuff, and more importantly
i wanted to learn something new!
nate
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