[Dovecot] Dovecot MTA

[WJCarpenter]

On 11/08/2013 07:43 AM, Charles Marcus wrote:
> On 2013-11-08 10:22 AM, Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:
>> Ah, I had actually been mostly just thinking about inbound SMTP 
>> features.
>
> Hmmm.... well, I'd hate to see this turn into a huge time-sink for 
> you. The fact is, postfix's maturity combined with its new postscreen 
> capabilities will make it a very, very hard sell to postfix shops - 
> especially the larger ones that rely heavily on postfix's ability to 
> filter out the crap with as few resources as possible - and postscreen 
> just increased that already powerful capability by at least one or two 
> orders of magnitude.

Likewise, exim users aren't likely to be sold. Most of things originally 
listed are either standard or easily accomplished in exim.

I would probably be pretty skeptical and uninterested in a Dovecot MTA. 
No offense. I think you should look at other existing MTAs besides 
postfix before concluding there is a hole that needs filling.

(You know the old Internet saying ... all programs evolve until they can 
send email. I guess you are getting there. :-)