Your mail server sucks!

As e-mail turns 30, here’s why Sendmail, the granddaddy of all mail transfer agents, still rules the roost

Somehow e-mail lives on despite spam, instant messaging, Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn. Heck, if it weren’t for e-mail notifications, I’d never check my Facebook page. But what’s driving e-mail these days?

A look at MailRadar.com shows that Sendmail is still the No. 1 MTA (mail transfer agent) in use today, followeded by Postfix, while Qmail is a distant third. And dear God, someone is still using MMDF. Surprisingly, Microsoft Exchange isn’t even in the mix, which casts doubt on the validity of those numbers, but it’s probably safe to say that Sendmail remains the top MTA.

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One Response to “Your mail server sucks!”

  • James Says:
    November 2nd, 2009 at 1:22 pm

    I personally run sendmail, but a rather new (still in development) kid on the block is OpenSMTPD, which as I’m sure you figured out is being developed by the OpenBSD team. It’s real beauty is in it’s config, you will really enjoy it is your coming from sendmail.

    listen on lo0
    listen on vr0
    listen on vr0 smtps enable auth

    map "aliases" { source db "/etc/mail/aliases.db" }

    accept for local deliver to maildir
    accept from all for domain mydomain.com deliver to maildir
    accept for all relay

    Thats all it takes to have smtp up and running over smtp/smtps and requiring smtpauth to relay. It also has a number of other features but for must people this is all they will need to get up and running.

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