Re: I want separate MUA/MTA/MDA

[Andrew McGuinness <andrew@arobeia.co.uk>]

Mark Ferlatte wrote:
> MJM said on Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 02:32:45PM -0400:
>
> > Recent threads have piqued my interest and desire to use separate
> > MUA/MTA/MDA.
>
>
> MUA: The thing the user users to compose mail.  Mutt, webmail, pine, Outlook.
> These often use SMTP to submit their outgoing mail, but that doesn't make them
> MTA's, 'cause they don't do routing.
>
> MTA: Mail Transport Agent.  The thing that routes email.  sendmail, postfix,
> exim.  Speaks SMTP in both directions (in and out), and may speak LMTP for
> delivery.  May also accept mail on the submission port.
I don't think it's worth anyone's while to learn to use sendmail in this 
age.  There is one good reason for choosing sendmail as an MTA, and 
that's that you already know it.

exim4 is debian's default and is very capable and very well documented.
postfix has some energetic advocates round here that claim it is better 
designed and more secure and scalable.
qmail is excellent and popular but not DFSG-free

any of the three would be better than sendmail IMHO.

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Andrew