Choice of MTA

[Haines Brown]

I don't want to start a flame war, but need some input in order to
choose a mail transport agent. The ones of interest to me are
primarily sendmail (I've used it for many years, but need a
comparison), postfix (which I gather is readily configured to solve a
problem I'm experiencing and was the direction I was inclined to go),
and exim (which seems very popular among debianists, but don't know
why). I know that qmail has also been popular.

My aim is to use the MTA with rmail (emacs) and mutt in a text rather
than gui environment on a standalone workstation. Stability, debian
friendliness, straightforward configuration, and spam blocking are my
principle concerns. The problem is that these parameters generally
seem marginal to the choice of MTA, and so I'm left wondering which
way to turn.

Haines Brown


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[Shyamal Prasad]

"Haines" == Haines Brown <brownh@hartford-hwp.com> writes:

Haines> I don't want to start a flame war, but need some input in
Haines> order to choose a mail transport agent.

A flame war you will start ;-)

There was a recently (in the last week or so) a long, noisy thread on
debian-devel about what the default Debian MTA should be. I'd
recommend you go read the archives.

Haines> many years, but need a comparison), postfix (which I
Haines> gather is readily configured to solve a problem I'm

It might help the quality of the replies you get if you told us what
the specific problem was.

Haines> My aim is to use the MTA with rmail (emacs) and mutt in a
Haines> text rather than gui environment on a standalone

This is not really a criteria for an MTA choice.

Haines> workstation. Stability, debian friendliness,
Haines> straightforward configuration, and spam blocking are my
Haines> principle concerns. The problem is that these parameters
Haines> generally seem marginal to the choice of MTA, and so I'm
Haines> left wondering which way to turn.

I can personally recommend that you go with exim first. It is
relatively friendly, configurable (straightforward? I don't know that
any MTA is that), Debian friendly, and known to be stable. The
eximconfig program will set up exim correctly for most people most of
the time.

Cheers!
Shyamal


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[Steve Lamb]

On 21 Jul 2003 08:27:02 -0500
Shyamal Prasad <shyamal.prasad@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> I can personally recommend that you go with exim first. It is
> relatively friendly, configurable (straightforward? I don't know that
> any MTA is that), Debian friendly, and known to be stable. The
> eximconfig program will set up exim correctly for most people most of
> the time.

Also with the sa-exim filter in place spam protection is superb.

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