Mail server recommendations?

[tickticker]

My 2 cents,

Postfix and Exim are the easiest to setup and handle most anything you 
will need it for.  While i've set em all up, hands down these just work 
and handle large (enough)amounts of traffic, unless you have massive 
amounts of users like a medium sized isp or larger.

Qmail is horrible to setup, and the gentleman who wrote it hasn't 
updated it in years, and the custom licensing will not allow addition of 
any of the NUMEROUS fixes and updates or a new version (last time i 
bothered to look) to the source.  Might work great at sending mail, but 
not worth the effort IMHO (even with that toaster setup, if it's still 
around).

Sendmail is dated, someone difficult to configure (recompile with every 
setting change), and probably the most insecure as the beast has evolved 
over the years. also runs like a champ.

be sure to pipe everything through spamassassin and Clamav and maybe 
even Anomy or somesuch other attachment control. Amavisd comes to mind 
as well for this.  there are others, and i will not knock 'em.

I'm not an email administrator, I just play one at client sites.

Tickticker
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Kenneth 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.
>
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