From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Giorgos Keramidas Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: [OT] Gnus and MTA(local) Date: Thu, 09 Jul 2009 04:23:20 +0300 Organization: SunSITE.dk - Supporting Open source Message-ID: <87hbxm6453.fsf@kobe.laptop> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1247103703 16283 80.91.229.12 (9 Jul 2009 01:41:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2009 01:41:43 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 09 03:41:36 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MOidh-0006vj-Uo for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Jul 2009 03:41:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52982 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MOidh-00060n-Aj for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:41:33 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!goblin1!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!news.net.uni-c.dk!dotsrc.org!filter.dotsrc.org!news.dotsrc.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (berkeley-unix) Cancel-Lock: sha1:txDWU8xVEnWU4hCQjF2EqSvRDdw= Original-Lines: 31 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 77.49.10.187 Original-X-Trace: news.sunsite.dk DXC=3ekVMCU2FL<4J8>`6Toe6=YSB=nbEKnk; 2J[8Ab?iJO=L^Mj7bH?lJH1Tkj<`1WTK58mOS3OZ2jk]MLIJ; Original-X-Complaints-To: staff@sunsite.dk Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:170669 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:65870 Archived-At: On Thu, 09 Jul 2009 09:03:07 +0900, Byung-Hee HWANG wrote: > For several years, i have been using Postfix in my desktop which runs > FreeBSD. In recent, i'm considering to switch local MTA from Postfix > to the others (e.g., qmail, Exim, Sendmail, ...). So i read some > papers about comparison MTAs. But still i could not deside what MTA is > best for me using Gnus and send-pr(1). This time i would like to give > +1 to Exim because most Emacs(Gnus, Rmail, VM, WL, Mew) folks use > Exim. > > Especially i checked this paper: http://shearer.org/MTA_Comparison Hi Byung-Hee :) IMO, this is a very good comparison. I really enjoyed reading it, so first of all thank you for the link. When I finished reading the article, I immediately tweeted about it, so others can pick it from my feed and share the fun! Postfix is a very nice system, with many features, it can support both single-user workstations and large multi-thousand user domains, and it runs pretty well on FreeBSD. In fact, Postfix is the MTA that runs the entire *.FreeBSD.org cluster of machines :) FWIW, I still have Sendmail running on my laptop (mostly out of inertia and because after the initial setup back in 1999 it still works fine), but if I was changing MTAs it would be Postfix all the way. So, what are your reasons for switching from Postfix to something else? Maybe we can help you configure Postfix to do what you have in mind, and you can still keep it.