MJM said on Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 02:32:45PM -0400:I don't think it's worth anyone's while to learn to use sendmail in this age. There is one good reason for choosing sendmail as an MTA, and that's that you already know it.
Recent threads have piqued my interest and desire to use separate MUA/MTA/MDA.
MUA: The thing the user users to compose mail. Mutt, webmail, pine, Outlook. These often use SMTP to submit their outgoing mail, but that doesn't make them MTA's, 'cause they don't do routing.
MTA: Mail Transport Agent. The thing that routes email. sendmail, postfix, exim. Speaks SMTP in both directions (in and out), and may speak LMTP for delivery. May also accept mail on the submission port.
exim4 is debian's default and is very capable and very well documented.
postfix has some energetic advocates round here that claim it is better designed and more secure and scalable.
qmail is excellent and popular but not DFSG-free
any of the three would be better than sendmail IMHO.
-- Andrew
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