On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 11:02:40AM -0700, Heather Madrone wrote:
> At 10:58 AM -0600 7/27/06, Ivan Fetch wrote:
> >    Is anyone using a light weight MTA to just hand emails off to Mailman
> >and deny anything else?
> 
> I was using exim for this purpose and now am using postfix.  I can
> recommend either, but postfix is superior in every way.

I would concur.

> >    I'm looking at Sun Sendmail (I know, it's definitely not light weight)
> >to do this, simply because it's already on the boxes in question - I'm
> >still sorting out how to get Sendmail to deliver to aliases, but not local
> >accounts.
> 
> Sendmail is definitely the most difficult MTA to configure and
> maintain.  You can get postfix downloaded, installed, and running in
> a fraction of the time that it will take to get sendmail to do most
> of what you want to do.

Postfix can be set up, resources are quite low, and once delivery
starts will send out your messages without hassle, slow down or a lot
of maintenance.

best of luck.

-- 
Mike Horwath, reachable via [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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