OT: Preferred MTA?

Denis Beauchemin Denis.Beauchemin at USherbrooke.ca
Fri Oct 13 16:20:09 IST 2006


Martin Hepworth a écrit :
> 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,

How about my greylisting problem with multiple MX servers sharing the 
same state info?  Can Exim do that?

Thanks!

Denis

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