Recommend MTA.

Alexander Howard howardz at cac.washington.edu
Fri Dec 28 10:23:44 PST 2001


I would second postfix. It was designed with security in mind. Check
out the goals of the project at: http://www.postfix.org/goals.html

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On Thu, 27 Dec 2001, Evan Martin wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 09:41:57PM -0800, William Rowden wrote:
> > I need to configure an MTA for my (Red Hat 7.2) system, and this
> > list was helpful with Samba (thanks!), so I'm asking for
> > recommendations.  The default installation is running `sendmail`,
> > but I haven't found its configuration intuitive.  How do `qmail` and
> > `postfix`, for example, compare?  I see there are RPMs for those as
> > well.  What other MTAs are people using?  Is anyone using IMAP, POP3
> > or SMTP over SSL?
>
> Postfix is the one I always see recommended.  It works for me.
>
> I have, in my /etc/postfix/canonical:
> martine martine at cs.washington.edu
>
> --
>       Evan Martin
> martine at cs.washington.edu
>   http://neugierig.org
>
>



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