RE: [OT] Re: Top mail servers

[Srivastava, Abhay]

 Hi Andrew,
     I dn't have experience with either of them. SO which one do you
suggest should be a good selection to start with ?

My users don't be reading the mails right now. But, yes I don't want to
restrict that functionality.


Abhay Srivastava
Reference Architecture
Shared Services and Architecture | Smith Barney Technology | CitiGroup
GWM
(212)  657 - 4617

-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Miehs [mailto:andrew@...]
Sent: Friday, March 28, 2008 5:36 PM
To: Tomcat Users List
Subject: [OT] Re: Top mail servers


On 28/03/2008, at 8:47 PM, Srivastava, Abhay wrote:
> Thanks a lot Guys.
> So is "Exim" better than "Sendmail" in terms of robustness and faster
> service?


It very much depends on what you want to do.

I am a big postfix fan - exim is supposedly also great.
qmail is also very good.

But these are only MTAs.

Do your users also need to read the mails - or is this only for
forwarding messages?

Andrew

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[Andrew Miehs]

On 28/03/2008, at 10:40 PM, Srivastava, Abhay wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
>     I dn't have experience with either of them. SO which one do you
> suggest should be a good selection to start with ?
>

I prefer postfix - simple and fast and its what I know.

> My users don't be reading the mails right now. But, yes I don't want  
> to
> restrict that functionality.

If you are only forwarding mails to other domains from your server -
any of postfix, exim or qmail would be ok.

If you want to start delivering mail locally so people can read
it on your sevrers via Pop3/ IMAP - then it gets a lot more  
complicated -
and you will need to look at things like Courier and Cyrus.

Cheers

Andrew