OT: building new server, need MTA advice

[Julian Field]

What is a brief summary of the outcome of this thread?
If it's of any help (I haven't read the whole thread) it might be worth 
posting in the wiki. Anyone?

Chris Yuzik wrote:
> 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

Jules

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