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Choosing the right MTA - Part 2

By prasad | August 31, 2006

The following are two articles on LWN about the mail transfer agents.  The second would be available for free reading after September 7th, 2006.
A Comparision of Mail Transfer Agents  - Part I
A Comparision of Mail Transfer Agents - PartII

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Choosing the right MTA

By prasad | June 29, 2006

What are the general expectations from an MTA?

Perform its primary task of sending mails. Should allow custom mail routes, sending via a SMTP server, envelope rewrite, virtual hosting.
Allow interfacing with spam and anti-virus utilities
Support authentication using the already existing authentication systems in my organization
Efficient mail storage (mbox is obsolete)
Support quotas
Easy to configure, help the [...]

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