[ale] Best MTA?

[Keith Hopkins]

Robert Reese wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I have FC4, SuSE 8.x, 9.3, and (sorta) 10, and rather old FreeBSD in the box (circa 2002).  I'm wonder what everyone thought of Sendmail, Postfix, QMail, and Exim, as well as any others you can think of?  I was going to use a LAMP server but was told to keep my servers seperate.  As this thread will surely end up helping others, please do consider posting responses geared for any technical level.  As for me, I'm a *complete* newbie, (as in "what the hell is *grep*????)
>
> Thanks much in advance!
>
> Cheers,
> Robert Reese~
> - An MS pro abandoning ship
>
> ------------------------------------------------------
>    * Microsoft is NOT a standard. *
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>   
Sendmail is the most flexible, and most fitting for a company that does
e-mail for fun and profit, where complex address rewrites are commonplace. 

Postfix (+dspam+procmail+dbmail) is what I use on my personal mail
server, and I've found it to be relatively easy to configure compared to
Sendmail.

I'd also highly recommend SuSE 9.3 for a stable platform to run it on,
although you'll need to recompile Postfix to get MySQL support under
SuSE 9.3.  I've got the .spec file if you need it.


Cizhi, Jingli,
  Keith