On Sun, Dec 02, 2007 at 12:56:11PM -0700, Anthony Roberts wrote: > > I have seen several installations of Postfix go catatonic due to spam > > overload, large messages, mailing list expansions, and other undiagnosed > > problems. These were run by Postfix lovers, so I have always assumed > > that the installation was correct. In the one case I saw tested > > replacing Postfix with Sendmail resulted in no further problems. > > I have seen equally catastrophic failures of Qmail. > > Trying to do mail right for everyone in base is an exercise in futility. >
Does base require an MTA? If so, is there a tiny-drive-footprint local-only no-config MTA that could be in base? Everything else as a pre-compiled package or in alternate install sets?
