-> Scott uttered: -> I wish I could find an UNBIASED comparison of the main MTA's. -> I just seem to find ones that slant to the one that just happens to be -> used by -> the writer. -> -> Most of what I have seen says stay away from Qmail, but only because of -> lack -> of maintenance by the programmer. Everything else just seems to orbit -> around -> Exim, Postfix, and Sendmail. I don't want to learn all three, so ... -> Hello again sendmail! -> -> I was fixed on sendmail as an isp for 10 years. Worked reasonably well. I got away for a coupla years. When I got back into it, I chose and switched to qmail because as a Linux person since pre Ver 1.x I wanted to know to the best of my ability what is going on and I wanted the ease of my clients admin'ing their own virtual mail servers etc blah. The phone calls I like are sales calls!!! :-) So, I was tired of doing of having employess do the work for clients when they can do it themselves. qmail and some other packages did that in a excellent way and I only had to pay my time in research and implementation to get it where I wanted it i.e. roll your own and save. I didn't have *unlimited* funds to do it even though I could have purchased virtually any commercial solution within reason. I watched www.qmailrocks.org Redhat version on the mailing list for a little less than a year before I wanted to totally jump away from sendmail. After a few months of implementation and testing live Centos servers were forged with these packages. The thing is, it keeps getting better and better. I almost didn't use it until some huge changes in the qmail world started coming thru plus people on this list (and others) keep programming and adjusting and sharing and you name it etc. I wanted to stay with sendmail yet couldn't find a good remote virtual server administration like qmailadmin. Qmail personalities are not an issue. Yes, there is a lot to think about and setup and admin yet it can be made extremely easy to setup and admin if you are willing to spend the time. There is a toaster site that can do it in a little time as well. You can make your setup a toaster too once you know how. So, after you do it and understand, you can script your own www.Qmailrocks.org setup so that you go from a bare centos server to a awesome custom configured Centos qmail server in a coupla hours (less if you wish) with all the bells and whistles the way YOU want it and NOT the way SOMEONE else does that you have to adapt to.... forget that. Mostly I roll my own RPMs for everything too. Why wait? :-) There are other websites. http://www.qmailrocks.org/ http://cr.yp.to/qmail.html http://www.inter7.com/vpopmail/ http://www.inter7.com/qmailadimin/ http://www.courier-mta.org/imap/ http://qmail-scanner.sourceforge.net/ http://spamassassin.apache.org/ http://www.clamav.net/ http://www.squirrelmail.org/ other useful sites: http://www.qmail.org/ http://www.lifewithqmail.org/ http://qmail.jms1.net/ http://www.qmailtoaster.com/ thanks for your time... - rh -- Abba Communications Computer & Internet Services (509) 624-7159 - www.abbacomm.net