From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 29 23:55:45 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 9F9051065673 for ; Thu, 29 May 2008 23:55:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dduong@goldenmunky.org) Received: from goldenmunky.org (206-248-139-62.dsl.teksavvy.com [206.248.139.62]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69DFE8FC16 for ; Thu, 29 May 2008 23:55:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dduong@goldenmunky.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by goldenmunky.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EA3F3984D; Thu, 29 May 2008 18:41:42 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at goldenmunky.org Received: from goldenmunky.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (saturn.goldenmunky.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id eWTLnnbQUfJu; Thu, 29 May 2008 18:41:35 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.2.49] (unknown [192.168.2.49]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by goldenmunky.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 5EE733981E; Thu, 29 May 2008 18:41:35 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <483F3E69.9030403@goldenmunky.org> Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 19:38:17 -0400 From: David Duong User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Windows/20080421) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Patrick.Baldwin@studsvik.com References: <483EE95F.8000509@studsvik.com> In-Reply-To: <483EE95F.8000509@studsvik.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: 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 23:55:45 -0000 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. > > However, it's been some time since I looked into options for mail > servers. I'm interested in both suggestions for hardware and mail > servers that would make for the best FreeBSD based mail server. > > 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. > > Thanks, > I also suggest Postfix + dovecot. Great combination :)