MTA Comparison
May 17th, 2007
… this page is a good and simple comparison page for different MTA’s like Exim, Postfix, qmail and Sendmail.
“One scenario is to use Postfix and Exim. The logic for Postfix is that an MTA facing the Internet needs to be as secure as possible it must perform as few functions as possible. For Exim, an MTA used to maximise the quality of email in a second level of anti-spam/malware must be as flexible as possible.”
“Think of Exim as the Linux of free MTAs.”
[Edit]
… a new cool table from wikipedia, but for mail servers comparison.
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Mário Gamito said:
Exim ?
You gotta be kidding, right ?
Doesn’t even supports somke kind o Maildir like format.
I’d go faster on Sendmail.
By the way, what’s the meaning of “maximise the quality of email” ?
*sigh*
pedro said:
“The list of software that can be used with Maildir is in fact much larger if you consider how this software can be plugged together, and the role of network access protocols.
The Sendmail MTA does not support any mail delivery format (although many assume that it does). Sendmail uses a separate delivery process called mail.local. Procmail (and other programs that support Maildir) can be used in place of mail.local, so Sendmail can rightly be said to support Maildir as much as it supports any other format.”
As for “maximise the quality of email” i believe they are refering to this:
“For sites already running Sendmail but experiencing performance problems it can help to leave all the routing logic to Sendmail (with the configuration files developed over many years) but to do the intensive spam/malware processing with either Exim or Postfix.”
*sigh* ^ 2