I find Exim to be to slow if you are running mailing lists, i usually get around 3 mails a second with exim, but with qmail, i find i get close on about 18 - 25 mails a second.
I prefer to use qmail on servers where you need to send mail from crontabs or from websites. Dave On 1/16/06, Wendall Cada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As was previously suggested ssmtp works fine, but only for cronjobs and > the othere alerts, it will not however work to relay mail. Exim, while > it is very robust, isn't exactly just a simple MTA. Postfix on the other > hand is probably the closest you'll get to a simple MTA in the portage > tree. It acts as an MTA and lets other apps do their jobs independently. > So, it can act as a simple mail forwarder, or interact with many other > applications for more robust functionality. It's several steps more > advanced than ssmtp, and not quite as complex as Exim. > > There is also esmtp, which has sendmail compatible syntax as well, and > is intended only as a mail forwarder. This may suit your needs well. > > Wendall > > On Sun, 2006-01-15 at 17:03 -0700, Tom Smith wrote: > > I need to find a basic SMTP server, one that will allow the server to > > send outbound messages (such as Cronjob status and various alerts) and > > will allow LAN devices (such as printers and copiers) to relay mail > > through it. It doesn't need to support SMTP AUTH, TLS, or anything of > > that nature--it just needs to be a basic, no frills mail server. > > > > Can anyone offer any suggestions for such a mail server? > > > > Thanks in advance for your help! > > -- > [email protected] mailing list > > -- [email protected] mailing list
