[NTLUG:Discuss] mail server question

[Bobby Wrenn]

I don't mind changing the MTA later. Right now I just need to get
something running and test it before I move the domain. I can afford to
have the web site down for a while but I can't afford to lose any email.

If I understand I need at least one other server peice beside the MTA.
Am I correct in thinking that the MTA just collects incoming mail but
doesn't handle outgoing mail? If I am correct, what do I need to handle
the outgoing mail?

Thanks
Bobby

briank at hex.net wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Feb 25, 2000 at 08:22:15PM -0600, Gregory A. Edwards wrote:
> 
> > Bobby,
> >
> > Not to be condensending, sendmail is pretty simple to setup a very basic
> > configuration.  Getting through all of the written crap about m4 and the
> > rules, yadda-yadda and finding the simple answer is the problem.
> 
> The security holes to be found in sendmail is enough reason, IMO, to
> use another MTA.  And the simplicity of setting up sendmail, once you
> go beyond the constraints of "a very basic configuration," as you
> point out, begins to diminish quite rapidly the more complex of a
> configuration that is required.
> 
>   --Brian
> 
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