OT: Preferred MTA?

Martin Hepworth martinh at solidstatelogic.com
Fri Oct 13 16:33:04 IST 2006


Denis Beauchemin wrote:
> 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
> 
Denis

depends where you store the greylist I guess....

Best to ask the experts on the exim mailing list - they're a friendly 
bunch. Be specific about what you are trying to do and they'll give you 
lots of pointers about the best way to achieve it.

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

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