OT: Preferred MTA?

[Martin Hepworth]

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...
> 
> As for ease of configuration and quality of documentation, which do you 
> recommend?
> 
> Do you recommend using a HW load balancer (and SSL accelerator) in front 
> of my servers?  How about Cisco's?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Denis
> 
Denis

My vote is for exim, wonderful support (abit like MailScanner :-), no 
political problems and a very knowledge commitity.

Config syntax is easy, and it's very configurable...

No idea about loadbalancers..

-- 
Martin Hepworth
Senior Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic
Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300

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