<quote who="Stuart Guthrie">
> What about Exim?
>
> http://www.exim.org/
>
> I've heard it's better than both postfix and qmail.
"Different"... It's just another MTA. Whilst postfix is a drop-in
replacement for sendmail, a lot of sendmail admins will find exim easier
going, as it's a bit more hackable and flexible. You get used to that with
sendmail. Exim documentation rocks way hard, and you can do some really
funky stuff with it.
If you're more anal-retentive, and like your systems clear-cut, ship-shape
and so on, postfix is probably a better match. There are some things that
are harder to do (wildly dynamic stuff isn't postfix's cup of tea), but it's
well architected, and easy to understand.
I personally prefer postfix for most tasks, but there are massive, million
account systems running qmail, postfix, sendmail, exim, zmailer, courier,
etc.
Choosing the right one for your task is the cunning part.
- Jeff
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