Les Mikesell wrote: > On Wed, 2006-08-30 at 22:23, Feizhou wrote: >>>> 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! >> It is possible. The problem is whether others will allow their >> prejudices to cloud whatever is recommended. eg: some would never >> install qmail even if it is the best for that particular situation and >> tell everybody else so too. > > That's kind of the point of giving advice on mail lists. If > you've had a bad experience with something you can spare other > people similar pain. And it is pretty much guaranteed that > you'll have a bad experience with a stock qmail system the > first time you get a dictionary-type attack to your domain > or if you send a lot of group messages over low-bandwidth > links. > and for the same reason I don't recommend qmail on an MX host without patches. There are other uses for an mta other than receiving mail for a domain.