Community opinion for new MTA

[Ben]

On Tue, 26 Apr 2011, John Nichel wrote:

>  I've been a long time user of qmail, but I'm looking for opinions on 
> other MTA's.  Currently I admin two qmail servers and I have a need to 
> migrate one of those to a newer machine.  I could stay with qmail, being 
> that I'm extremely familiar with it, but the fact that it hasn't been 
> updated in years (and doesn't look like it ever will be), I'm open to 
> moving to more current MTA's.  The sever would have to support the most 
> common things, like multiple domains (ability to route based on domain and 
> such), the ability to relay and/or run scripts configurable down to the 
> user at domain level, being able to handle a mailing list of 250k subscribers 
> (as long as we can inject to the send), the ability to set different 
> header elements like 'reply to' and 'bounce' addresses, etc. Time is kind 
> of short for me, so if I'm to go with anything other than qmail, it can't 
> have a steep learning curve for getting the basics up and running. 
> Thanks for your opinions in advance.

For sheer configurability and ease of use I'd suggest exim.  The 
configuration file actually makes sense to me (-:

Ben
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