{MailScanner: Spam} Re: OT: building new server, need MTA advice

[Julian Field]

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Dennis Willson wrote:
>
> Julian probably doesn't want to show a preference, but it would be 
> nice to know which one he finds easier to support, has less trouble 
> with, gives the best implementation for MS, etc..
sendmail was the main one I wrote the original support for.
So the best implementation in MailScanner is sendmail, inevitably.

>
> Also, while I use a specific mail server for my MailScanner hubs, it's 
> more out of the fact that I have been using it for years and am happy 
> enough with it and understand it enought that I don't feel motivated 
> to learn a new one.
> A table of feature comparisions would be nice...
> One thing that I fee I must have is the ability to use Milters. There 
> are so many really good Milters out there and now that I have written 
> a couple of my own I feel that is a must have. I know that Sendmail 
> and Postfix support Milters, but do any others?
>
I would go for sendmail if I were you. They invented milters. Postfix 
supported milters as the other children were doing it so he thought he 
should too. And don't get me started on 'p' records, a complete hack in 
my view.

Jules

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