[ale] Best MTA?

[Jim Popovitch]

Robert Reese wrote:
> What is a 'milter'?   

According to Answer.com it's a male fish that is ready to breed.
   (Wow, I learn something new every day)  :-)

In Sendmail land, milter is the sendmail content management API that 
allows for third-party integration (Virus scanning, SPF, etc.)  The 
milter API integration point is at a deep and direct level of sendmail, 
thus it is very optimized.  With other MTAs there are plenty of command 
line interfaces but there is more overhead associated with one 
application having to execute a second application in order to do extra 
work.

I think that milter is short for Mail Filter.  You can find all sorts of 
info on how it works here:
http://sendmail.org/doc/sendmail-current/libmilter/docs/

You can also find a list of existing milters here:
http://www.milter.org/

> (Sorry, one of those stoopid n00b questions, I know.)

There is no such thing as a stupid question, rather it is stupid to NOT 
ask. ;-)

hth,

-Jim P.