Erik N Johnson wrote:
John,
If you're very concerned about the footprint of a proper MTA on your
host check out qmail. But generally I agree with Malcolm, you would
be well advised to run an MTA. There's also no sense reinventing the
wheel. There are three very good, pretty modern totally free and open
MTAs available on the net: exim, postfix, and qmail. Qmail is the
most modular, my personal experience is that exim is the easiest to
configure, and postfix is designed as a drop-in replacement for
sendmail, so I woudn't mess with it unless you already have sendmail
deployed and want to get rid of it.
I use postfix, it's not exactly a dropin replacement for sendmail;-)
The once I tried to use exim it got installed with the distro I
installed and I found it dropping email{rollseyes}. I was familiar with
sendmail, and it only took me a few minutes to remove exim, install
sendmail and have it working.
exim might be easier under less pressure.
I would guess exim, postfix and sendmail are all supported parts of your
distro; use of qmail probably isn't covered by your support contract.
Last I looked at qmail, the licensing was a little strange.
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Cheers
John
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