[ale] Best MTA?

[Björn Gustafsson]

I really liked qmail for a business environment, but wouldn't
recommend it for personal use. I first ran it on an incredibly old Sun
box as a mail gateway, and it performed like a champ. It had the best
antispam/blackhole support of any of the MTAs I tried when in the role
of a gateway.  I also like its Maildir delivery feature when you use
it as your main MTA..

Qmail *is* a pain to set up, and if you want to do something
nonstandard it can be hard to find the add-on you want.  (And you
don't want to write your own add-ons if you can avoid it.)  But it is
fast and amazingly robust; once you have it set up you can pretty much
forget about it.

For personal use I'd probably go with Postfix if I didn't like the MTA
that came with my distro.

On 5/16/06, Jay Finch <retief at larp.com> wrote:
>
>  Actually, I'm going to go against the grain and recommend Qmail.  I
> migrated my server from Sendmail to Qmail (using the Qmailrocks page:
> http://www.qmailrocks.org) and really like it!  While Qmail can have its
> eccentricities, the Qmailrocks resource really helps getting the server up
> and running, and is a great resource.
>
>  But to each his/her own - Find the solution that works best for you. :)
>
>  Cheers!
>  Jay
>
>  Robert Reese wrote:
>  *********** REPLY SEPARATOR ***********
> On 5/16/2006 at 10:12 AM Ben Coleman wrote:
>
>  Jim Popovitch wrote:
>
>  Thomas Stromberg wrote:
>
>  On 15 maj 2006, at 21.19, Philip Polstra wrote:
>
>  My vote would be for Postfix. That is what I use for my private
> domain.
>
>  I second the vote for Postfix being the easiest to work with.
>
>  I have to "third" this.
>
>  I'll "fourth" (FORTH?) it. I've been using Postfix on my home network for
> ages.
>
> So far the consensus is mostly 4 to 1 to -1 for Postfix, Sendmail, and QMail
> in that order. *That's* a bit telling! Small sampling but hard to ignore the
> results. Perhaps I'll learn them all one day, but for now I think I'll start
> looking first into Postfix, then Courier, and then Sendmail even if I decide
> to use another since Sendmail seems to be the reigning champion on the
> internet.
>
> Thank you to Brandon, Mike, Jim, Jeff and Paul, and Ben. I have a much
> clearer direction to start my investigation into getting off other peoples'
> mail servers and onto my own. It has to be a Unix/Linux box, as even just
> *thinking* about Exchange just chills me to the bone! Brrrr!!
>
> Peace,
> Robert~
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Bj?rn Gustafsson