postfix or exim

[Derek Broughton]

Sarunas Burdulis wrote:

> Mihamina (R12y) Rakotomandimby wrote:
>> On 05/10/2009 01:05 AM, Noah wrote:
>>> I am hoping to set up an ubuntu box for handling mail.  What is the Best
>>> MTA - exim or postfix?
>> 
>> Exim.
>> It has a powerfull (but hard to learn) configuration langage.
> 
> One point that was somewhat important to me when choosing Exim over
> Postfix, was the fact that Exim has a capability of talking to spam and
> malware scanners from within its own process. For Postfix, it's amavis
> daemon, which would have to be listening on port 25 in order to
> intercept SMTP, do its work and then possibly pass it to Postfix.

Well, that's not the _only_ way to do it - I did have Postfix invoking 
bogofilter from within its own process at one point.  I'm not 100% certain 
that's a good thing in either Exim or Postfix, but perhaps Exim handles it 
better.  

-- 
derek