Debian Administration

We use qmail. It's isn't much fun to work with.
The advantage is that it's almost certainly the
fastest, most reliable, and secure MTA.
If I had to do it over again I'd go with Postfix.

This poll has been asked before, I wonder if the results will be different this time.

http://www.debian-administration.org/polls/68

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"It's Not Magic, It's Work"
Adam

I wouldn't want to use anything other than Exim (or Exim4 as the Debian repositories call it). But I have to admit that I really don't like the messy-fanagled config system that was introduced with the move from Exim3 to Exim4.

This may be just that I haven't plucked up the courage to really dig in and get a feel for it, but whenever I've come close to it I come away thinking it's just plain nasty.

This strikes me as odd, as I usually like the basic idea of splitting configs up like Debian does, and I particularly like the way the apache2 packages are configured, but for Exim, give me a monolithic config file any day (or at least until the day I take a few hours to get my head around the new system, and at that time I reserve my right to change my mind and love the new system ;-)

Regardless, Exim gets my vote very strongly.

Cheers.

:wq

Try xmail -> http://www.xmailserver.org/

I think it's one of the best and easy to configure.

Honestly,

It's postfix all the way. I've tried them all and postfix seems to be the easiest to configure, and most robust. Including all of the commercial solutions out there. excluding exchange as, I'm talking about emailservers not malware spreaders. :)

I used to have Postfix but now I've delagated my emails to a company that manages this for me for free (backup and HA was a pain to manage).

But if I have to take back the management of my mails, I will use Dovecot.

We use Exim4 for us and for our customers. It has been a good choise, easy to configure and reliable. We wouldn't go back.

Massimo - La Clinica del Computer - Cuneo - Italy

I'm partial to Courier, don't know that I'd call it "best" but it's certainly suitable for what I need in an MTA. I like the filtering setup in it a lot.

I used qmail way back when... but backscatter is such a problem on today's internets that it's irresponsible (IMAO) to deploy it. My next anti-annoyance project is going to be to add a backscatterers blacklist to my system, and you can bet that 90%+ of the systems that end up listed will be qmail and Barracuda.

I've only used Postfix so I shouldn't vote, I can't compare them to say which one is the best, but I like Postfix.