[SwellJoe]

I work on Virtualmin. I'm glad it works well for you in this role. The mail stack is probably he single most complicated portion of the stuff Virtualmin manages (it certainly has a long dependency list). As the person that maintains some of it, I also wish there were a simpler way! The number of components we have to keep up in order to make it easy is mind blowing...

That said, I'm really surprised at how many mail sending services there are. Sending mail really shouldn't be hard (and it isn't if you understand all the components, but it's still time-consuming enough to be a challenge for many). I am not one of those folks who believes email should be replaced by a whole new thing, but I do think a simplification of the stack would be lovely. How we do that without introducing even more new mail related standards is the conundrum.