Mail server recommendations?

[Gerard J Snitselaar]

On  0, Kenneth <madhse at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I'm beginning the process of learning about MTAs, MUAs, and whatever all
> those other acronyms are.  I have never had the need to set one up, and still
> don't really have a need but I thought I would add to my knowledge.
> 
> What are some good packages I should be looking at?  I did a quick install of
> qmail on Gentoo, but it doesn't seem to want to start up, it's looking for a
> whole bunch of files in /var/qmail/control that don't exist.  I'm not
> knocking qmail for this, at least yet.  I still have to look over the
> documentation more thoroughly, probably something I didn't do.
> 
>
In addition to qmail, there is postfix and exim. Of course sendmail
is still around.