On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 01:28:22PM +0000, Alan Smith wrote:
> I have been given the (un)enviable task of setting up a backup MX
> server for our company. Our primary is happily chugging along on RH5.2
> running Exim. This box won't store mails, it just shoves them on to
> our internal server. Is Exim the best choice for this kind of thing or
> is there something better out there??
Well, sendmail is of course the default MTA and like many default choices,
there's often something better. In the alternative MTA world, the major
choices seem to be postfix, qmail and exim. I use Postfix, and I'm happy
with it, but I wouldn't dream of getting in a pissing contest with
exim/qmail supporters. As you already have one exim box, having another would
seem like a reasonable idea - hardly any point in learning the intricacies
of YAMTA for no good reason.
Regards,
Niall
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