building new server, need MTA advice

[Martin.Hepworth]

Chris

I'd say "better the devil you know", but if you're looking for a switch
and are willing to spend the time learning a new MTA, my vote is for...

Exim

Nice rules based syntax, nice people on the mailing lists for support,
responsive developers (sound familiar ;-)

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Martin Hepworth
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Solid State Logic
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-
> bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Chris Yuzik
> Sent: 29 January 2007 14:53
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: OT: building new server, need MTA advice
>
> We're in the process of building what will be our new web and mail
> server. We will be hosting several virtual domains and each will have
> anywhere from a few to a couple of hundred email users. Obviously we
> will be running MailScanner and also MailWatch. The box is running
> CentOS 4.4 (it's like RHEL).
>
> Since we're starting fresh on this box, we're not necessarily married
to
> Sendmail like on our other servers. We could stick with Sendmail, or
we
> could move over to Postfix or Exim (anything else worth considering?).
> We'd like to be able to add new spam-fighting features as they come
out,
> such as the greet-pause and such. Over the years we've used Sendmail,
> I've found it a bear to tweak so have done the absolute minimum with
it.
> We're looking for something that is secure, efficient, maintained
(which
> rules out qmail) and easy to administer. Whatever we look at needs to
> play very nicely with MailScanner or it's not worth considering.
> Finally, (and I'm not sure it makes a difference to the MTA), we need
> our users to be able to log in with the "username at domain.tld" format
> because that's what they use now and I don't want to have to change
> hundreds of user's email client settings.
>
> Now for the big question: Is there an MTA that should we consider
using
> instead of Sendmail?
>
> Thanks,
> Chris
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