On Tue, 2005-01-18 at 23:11, Ben Halicki wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm in the process of a mailserver upgrade, just after your thoughts as to > which MTA to go for... any ideas? > > Thanks in advance, > > Ben. Is this a lesson in how to start a flame war? (just kidding) :) I have used sendmail for many years. Seems to do the job quite well. There are other MTA's that are suppose to be easier to setup but they all do pretty much the same thing. You may want to actually install both on different systems just to try them out. And if you don't have any experience at all please get a good book on the MTA you plan to implement and read up on it. O'Reilly publishes some very good books on most of the major MTA's available. I do recommend if you setup a mailserver that you also look into setting up greylisting. Most all MTA's have optional packages that you can add. For instance with sendmail I have used milter-greylist very successfully to block most spam. Also setup spamassassin to catch the few spam that get past greylisting. The combination is as close to a 100% spam solution as you can get. -- Scot L. Harris webid@xxxxxxxxxx You may have heard that a dean is to faculty as a hydrant is to a dog. -- Alfred Kahn
