Re: Which MTA/MDA?

BubbaT wrote:
Here is my basic setup. I am runing one computer, which runs dual boot XP
and debian. I have installed dsl on a small VM for the purposes of
retrieving, processing and storing it in a folder accessible to both OSs.


I also expect I will be reprocessing the email later as I refine my
processing rules. Generally the kind of things I expect to do are: 1)
Remove duplicate emails. 2) Sort mailing lists into a seperate subfolder.
3) Remove empyt email messages. 4) I want to remove the forwarding
messages of messages forwarded from a different account of mine. 5) Many
other that escape my memory right now.


I have many different email accounts oon many different servers.

My knowledge of the MTAs/MDAs out there is minimal. Can someone I don't
want to read the manual of each one that I might use. Can someone
recommend what I shoiuld use?

Probably the best MTA to use is the one that comes with your distro. In my
case it would be sendmail, because that comes with Red Hat Enterprise Linux
and, also, I am familiar with it.

In the past, I used sendmail to both send mail and to receive it. With my
current ISP, I cannot really use it to receive e-mail, since they do not
allow me to run servers unless I pay a lot more money for a static IP
address and the right to run a mail server.

If you are serious about it, you might wish to also run spam assassin on it
and you might also wish to consider running fetchmail since you say you have
a lot of e-mail accounts.

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