[ale] Best MTA?

[Robert Reese]

Hi again everyone,

I wanted to let this thread run itself the past week to see where it headed.  Much thanks to everyone that responded with your offers of assistance, advise, links, warnings, and anecdotes, and to Jim who was kind enough to answer my n00b question. ;c)

Jay Finch summed it up when he said "But to each his/her own - Find the solution that works best for *you*. :)"

The summary for me is that Postfix is easier and pretty darned good, Sendmail is harder but has some very strong points, Qmail is a beyotch but has its rewards if I'm patient enough.  This is just a few of them, apparently; it looks like I have just begun researching this.

I'm thinking then, of doing both postfix to get started (just to have one running) and then jump into qmail because it seems to be the hardest to learn. ;)  But at the moment I think I'll stop and do more investigating with all your responses as starting points since apparently running a mail server is far harder than running a webserver!

Cheers and peace all,
Robert~

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