OT: Preferred MTA?

[Mike Jakubik]

Denis Beauchemin wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I have been asked to evaluate what would be needed to turn our 
> internal mail hubs into secured ones.  Since I always had trouble with 
> sendmail's documentation, I was thinking about switching to another MTA.
>
> We currently use many sendmail features such as greet_pause, 
> conncontrol, ratecontrol and milter-greylist.  We have multiple 
> domains and use LDAP for final delivery address resolution. And of 
> course, MS must blend just fine with the MTA.
>
> What other MTA would give me those features with less headaches 
> whenever I need to change things?  Exim? Postfix? others?
>
> I couldn't find a greylisting for Exim that shares its state table 
> between multiple MX... but I think PF could use my existing 
> milter-greylist as is...

I would recommend postfix, its feature rich, very easy to configure, and 
has a great security record. It is also designed to be a compatible 
replacement for sendmail, and since version 2.3 it supports sendmail 
milters.