On Wed, 2006-08-30 at 12:13 -0700, Scott Silva wrote: > Karanbir Singh spake the following on 8/30/2006 11:30 AM: > > Scott Silva wrote: > >> <snip> > > dont waste time, pass postfix, go straight to exim... > > > > - K > I see flames!!! > > 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. Not possible? Those who bother to reply have probably had a variety of experience and settled on what they thought was best for their situation. For them to express anything other than recommendations (mostly) for their selection would be .. illogical ... Kirk! And those who replied and had not selected one and/or had not practical experience but only analytical comparisons are not the ones you want to here from. Ergo, it is not possible for you to get an unbiased recommendation in which you can have confidence. > > 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! However, as with any tool selection, they may all be the *right* one. It depends on the job to be done. And level of expertise and/or effort required is an important consideration, along with the more traditional technical considerations. Often the answers are wrong only because the original question was incomplete. The question should include such phrases as "... level of expertise...", "... volume approaching ...", "... remotely administered or by the user ...", etc. Of course, I found over the years that my greatest contribution was in discovering the right questions. Everybody and his brother had the right answers, but I was just plain ignorant. > > MHO!