[Mailman-Users] MTA only for Mailman

[Heather Madrone]

At 10:58 AM -0600 7/27/06, Ivan Fetch wrote:
>    Is anyone using a light weight MTA to just hand emails off to Mailman
>and deny anything else?

I was using exim for this purpose and now am using postfix.  I can
recommend either, but postfix is superior in every way.

>    I'm looking at Sun Sendmail (I know, it's definitely not light weight)
>to do this, simply because it's already on the boxes in question - I'm
>still sorting out how to get Sendmail to deliver to aliases, but not local
>accounts.

Sendmail is definitely the most difficult MTA to configure and maintain.
You can get postfix downloaded, installed, and running in a fraction of
the time that it will take to get sendmail to do most of what you want to
do.

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