"Haines" == Haines Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Haines> I don't want to start a flame war, but need some input in Haines> order to choose a mail transport agent.
A flame war you will start ;-) There was a recently (in the last week or so) a long, noisy thread on debian-devel about what the default Debian MTA should be. I'd recommend you go read the archives. Haines> many years, but need a comparison), postfix (which I Haines> gather is readily configured to solve a problem I'm It might help the quality of the replies you get if you told us what the specific problem was. Haines> My aim is to use the MTA with rmail (emacs) and mutt in a Haines> text rather than gui environment on a standalone This is not really a criteria for an MTA choice. Haines> workstation. Stability, debian friendliness, Haines> straightforward configuration, and spam blocking are my Haines> principle concerns. The problem is that these parameters Haines> generally seem marginal to the choice of MTA, and so I'm Haines> left wondering which way to turn. I can personally recommend that you go with exim first. It is relatively friendly, configurable (straightforward? I don't know that any MTA is that), Debian friendly, and known to be stable. The eximconfig program will set up exim correctly for most people most of the time. Cheers! Shyamal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]