OT: building new server, need MTA advice

Scott Silva ssilva at sgvwater.com
Mon Jan 29 22:50:45 CET 2007


Julian Field spake the following on 1/29/2007 1:16 PM:
> 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
> 
Typical outcome .. 2 votes postfix one for exim. A sendmail bash and an
absolute "no" to qmail.

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