From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 29 23:07:43 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06EC7106566B for ; Thu, 29 May 2008 23:07:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from igloo.linux.gr (igloo.linux.gr [62.1.205.36]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 686308FC14 for ; Thu, 29 May 2008 23:07:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from kobe.laptop (adsl38-53.kln.forthnet.gr [77.49.165.53]) (authenticated bits=128) by igloo.linux.gr (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-1) with ESMTP id m4TN7KpC027553 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Fri, 30 May 2008 02:07:26 +0300 Received: from kobe.laptop (kobe.laptop [127.0.0.1]) by kobe.laptop (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m4TN7JoB007067; Fri, 30 May 2008 02:07:19 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from keramida@localhost) by kobe.laptop (8.14.2/8.14.2/Submit) id m4TN7HRt007066; Fri, 30 May 2008 02:07:17 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Jerry McAllister References: <483EE95F.8000509@studsvik.com> <20080529195221.GA38690@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 02:07:17 +0300 In-Reply-To: <20080529195221.GA38690@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> (Jerry McAllister's message of "Thu, 29 May 2008 15:52:21 -0400") Message-ID: <877idcwvyy.fsf@kobe.laptop> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-MailScanner-ID: m4TN7KpC027553 X-Hellug-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Hellug-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-3.786, required 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -1.80, AWL 0.61, BAYES_00 -2.60) X-Hellug-MailScanner-From: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr X-Spam-Status: No Cc: Patrick Baldwin , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Need to build a new mail server X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 23:07:43 -0000 On Thu, 29 May 2008 15:52:21 -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: > On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 01:35:27PM -0400, Patrick Baldwin wrote: >> Hi all, I've got an older Solaris system running Sendmail for my >> mail server right now. It's about time to replace it, and I'm >> thinking FreeBSD might be the best choice of OS for the replacement. >> >> I've only got about two dozen users, though they are all very heavy >> users of email. I'm using IMAP, and I'd like to continue to do so. >> >> Finally, we have quite a few aliases I'd want to port over to a >> new server. > > Given that, a FreeBSD system could be almost a drop-in replacement. > Sendmail should be the same or very nearly so (depends on the version > you are using now and the nre version). Nice finger-slip in 'new/nre' :) I fully agree that FreeBSD+Sendmail should be an almost drop-in replacement for Solaris+Sendmail. > Aliases should work just the same. Your only differences might be in > where some things live. But, check out the hier(7) man page in > FreeBSD. It documents the FreeBSD directory conventions. Patrick, Jerry is right. If you are comfortable with Sendmail on Solaris, you should be pretty ok with the base system version of the same on FreeBSD too. Moving the aliases is probably just a matter of copying over the aliases from Solaris to `/etc/mail/aliases' and running `newaliases'. That's all. > There are other MTAs and other utilities available to experiment with. > But, if you are comfortable with sendmail, there is no reason to > change. It is mature and very functional; does what you need. A > modern machine with FreeBSD 7.x should handle large numbers of Email > users - even heavy users. An old Intel Pentium at 400 MHz handles the email traffic of all local users (several dozen) and many mailing lists, in one of the domains I am affiliated with. It also runs MailScanner and spamassassin. Relatively modern systems can go a very long way :)