Mail server recommendations?

[Eric "Shubes"]

tickticker wrote:
> 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).

I think this is a dated opinion. Installing the toaster today is simply a 
matter of running a few scripts (granted, it can take a while to compile 
everything). It also includes simscan, spamassassin, clamav, and a host of 
other add-ons that are already added in.

> 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
> <http://cyborg.namedecoder.com>
> 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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-Eric 'shubes'