MTA preferences for use with MailScanner

[David H.]

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Mike Andrews wrote:

| (I hope this is sufficiently on-topic; flame me privately, please, if you
| think it's not.)
|
| I've got three shiny new IBM xSeries 335 servers with lots of room and
| speed, which I'll
| be deploying as MailScanner filters as soon as I get them loaded up. I now
| have to
| decide which MTA to run on these boxes.
|
| I've been running sendmail as my MTA on all the MailScanner boxes so far,
| but thought
| it might be good to have something a little less cryptic for my co-workers
| to deal with, in
| case I get hit by a truck.
|
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~From our own testing and this means testing MTA's that run with
MailScanner and all the specifica they need to have to run well with
MailScanner we came up with the following and I am talking raw
performance here:

Exim -> fastest
Zmailer along with sendmail second fastest and after that it seems to
dwindlew down for very high volumes with postfix being the end (in our
setup).

So while I agree that sendmail is not the easiest MTA to setup or have
an eye on, it is still possible to learn it. I think it is a good
choice, however if you _must_ consider a new MTA try Exim :) (and this
comes from a sendmail fan)

- -d

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