[TriLUG] MTAs

[Jon Carnes]

Exim is a fine MTA and one of the many that are recommended by folks who 
run high performance mail servers.  It works fine, but can sometimes be 
tempermental.  

My personal choice is Sendmail, but then I have some experience in tuning a 
Sendmail install so that it runs quickly and efficiently. 

For you I would recommend Postfix.  Postfix seems to be the best of breed - 
 easy to configure and highly optimized for mail delivery.  It also works 
well with mass mailing programs like Mailman.
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The key to getting your MTA to work properly is to setup your DNS properly, 
so you might want to make your machine the primary DNS for the domain as 
well as the mailserver.  Let Roadrunner run the Secondary DNS for the 
domain, and set them up as a secondary MX.

BTW: pop (and imap) are not that hard to setup on your box.  Pop is 
remarkably easy, simply turn it on in /etc/inetd.cfg (or xinetd.cfg).

As always, if you need advice, you know where to turn.

Jon
On Tuesday 27 November 2001 19:21, Ben Pitzer wrote:
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> Hey, I've got a potential project that I'd like to investigate, but need
> some input on.  My wife has purchased a domain for her new business, and
> we are thinking of having my Linux machine be the primary MX record for
> that domain.  I would simply alias email to that domain to her RoadRunner
> account, thereby allowing her to get email at her domain without having
> to set up POP or IMAP services on my Linux box.
> ...