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From: "Charles Burns" <burnscharlesn@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Recommended MTA
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There was a post about this a few weeks ago (by me)
The conclusions that I came up with based on help from this list and 
research elsewhere:

Sendmail is good if you want to admin professionally, most Unix businesses 
use it.

Qmail is probably the most secure, but isn't very good for computers with 
limited bandwidth as it doesn't parallelize transfers to the same 
server--they are all serialized.

Postfix, which is used by FreeBSD.ORG, has a similar security model to Qmail 
(so is very secure) and is much more efficient with limited bandwidth. This 
is the one that I ended up choosing, but it may not be the absolute best.
If you are looking for something technically superior by design, Sendmail is 
probably not it.

Note that I am not an expert with MTAs, but I know how to research pretty 
well.
Just my $0.02

Charles Burns

>Ok, FreeBSD 4.4 includes Sendmail by default.
>
>I will be setting up a mail host and I am looking for recommendations on a
>good MTA.  Should I stick with Sendmail or go with one of the others?
>
>I know Sendmail, Postfix and Qmail are all good choices, but which one
>should I invest my time and braincells into?  I have to learn one, which 
>one
>should it be?
>
>Thanks,
>
>
>
>_________________________________
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>Scott Gerhardt, P.Geo.
>Gerhardt Information Technologies
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