I'll second Stan's comments. Free support is frequently as good as the paid support. For common software, like sendmail or BIND, I'll start with a search on Google. Often, that turns up the exact problem I'm having within 10 minutes. If the MTA is for the exclusive use of Listserv, another possibility to consider is LSoft's LSMTP. I am not using LSMTP, but I have contacted LSoft support several times about Listserv Classic. They were mostly newbie questions, but I was pleased with the experience. --- Spam isn't speech, just like a note wrapped around a brick thrown through a window isn't publication. William Brown Email/Internet Services Erie 1 BOCES Stan Horwitz <[log in to unmask]> Sent by: LISTSERV give-and-take forum <[log in to unmask]> 10/21/2003 09:36 PM Please respond to LISTSERV give-and-take forum <[log in to unmask]> To [log in to unmask] cc Subject Re: [LSTSRV-L] Mail Transfer Agents Other than Microcrap Exchange, Sendmail is the only MTA I know of that has paid tech support. Keep in mind that the free tech support from the good people who monitor the comp.mail.sendmail Usenet newsgroup is superb. I do not see the rationale for paying for tech support. In fact, I once posted a question to the sendmail newsgroup at 2:00am and received a response within half an hour during a crisis that hit the nail right on the head and fixed the problem I was having. Also, do not assume that paid tech support is superior in any way to free tech support. I have had many ocassions where I posted a question on a particular software package to a free forum such as this one and gotten a perfectly fine response in a reasonable period of time. Just recently, I went three months waiting for a correct response from paid tech support for a particular software package. This is tech support that costs my employer several tens of thousands of dollars annually. After I got tired of waiting for a response that actually worked, and I had done some detective work on my own, I posted a question about the problem at hand to a free tech support forum. In half an hour, I had the answer I needed while the paid guys took another two weeks to come to the same conclusion, and they had the benefit of several gigabytes worth of log file and debug analysis. This issue did not involve Listserv software, by the way. Do not assume that paid tech support is superior to free tech support, esp. for products that provide Internet service.