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Timothy Murphy said the following on 02/11/2013 13:57:
Having looked into postfix/amavis a little further, it seems to me to involve excessively complicated processes (at least for a simple home server) with email going along spaghetti-like routes.
For a simple home mail server that routes all the outbound mail to ISP MTA every software is fine, also a SMTP emulator written in Perl :)
If you are the sysadmin of MTAs on the front line and you have a lot of users things change.
When you choose a MTA you must take in account many factors and try to avoid "religion" arguments.
Among such factors: * security * easy (for the SysAdmin in charge, not for EVERY SysAdmin) to manage and configure * active support * security * interoperability with the other components of the mail system (user base, IMAP/POP server, antivirus, antispam, vacation...) * speed * security * log files easy to read to trace mail errors * easy implementation of "new" mail protocol extension (such as TLS)
There are often some sort of "mail ecosystems", that is a group of programs (MTA, IMAP, administration tools, Webmail) that interact nicely one with another.
That said, choosing a MTA is not like casting a vote in a ballot, but making a wise logical decison after an extensive analysis of the situation.
Ciao, luigi
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