>> As others have already suggested, consider Postfix. >> >> I'm putting in my $0.02(US) so I can add my experience when I first had >> a need for a decent MTA. I had used Sendmail in the past, but I didn't >> want to fight with the arcane syntax of the config files, and at that >> time the add-on management tools and scripts were not nearly as friendly >> to a beginner. >> >> When Postfix was suggested to me, I started reading the docs on their >> Web site, and discovered that the learning curve is nowhere near as >> steep as it is with Sendmail. So far, Postfix has done everything I >> have needed, and with a LOT less pain. >> >> As always, YMMV. > > +1. Let me throw in something else. If youa re sending more than one email > at a time (to more than one person simultaneously), Postfix will beat > Sendmail. It can handle high loads better than Sendmail as well. Is it the > fastest MTA out there? Doing some Google Fu some time ago, it's right > there with the very fastest ones. For my job, I need to send out emergency > notifications to 400 people at once. With Sendmail, that took over 7 > minutes. With Postfix, that takes seconds, and mostly because of the > "handshaking" with the downstream host. If it's fast, I haven't even got > time to send the message, get to a command prompt and type "mailq" and see > it leaving the outbox queue...because it is already gone! > > Gilbert I can second this; having deployed a bunch of mailing list servers myself, I can tell postfix is _very_ efficient. One can tweak it even further using multiple instances [0], thusly each 'tuneable' to special purposes (e.g., serving mailing lists). exim [1] also is very powerful and on some topics even more configureable, but IMHO not as easily implemented as postfix and, due to it's design, not as efficient. [0] -- http://www.postfix.org/MULTI_INSTANCE_README.html [1] -- http://exim.org/ > ******************************************************************************* > Gilbert Sebenste ******** > (My opinions only!) ****** > *******************************************************************************