From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 17 14: 4: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in (theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in [144.16.71.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B7ADF37B997 for ; Wed, 17 May 2000 14:03:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in) Received: (qmail 84503 invoked from network); 17 May 2000 21:03:36 -0000 Received: from theory7.physics.iisc.ernet.in (qmailr@144.16.71.127) by theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in with SMTP; 17 May 2000 21:03:36 -0000 Received: (qmail 16599 invoked by uid 211); 17 May 2000 21:03:34 -0000 Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 02:33:34 +0530 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: Nathan Vidican Cc: Robert Small , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Guidance with Sendmail or Qmail Message-ID: <20000518023334.E16497@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Mail-Followup-To: Nathan Vidican , Robert Small , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <3922D319.D1D59CF8@wmptl.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <3922D319.D1D59CF8@wmptl.com>; from webmaster@wmptl.com on Wed, May 17, 2000 at 01:12:57PM -0400 X-Operating-System: Linux 2.2.14 alpha X-Question: Do you enjoy reading pointless headers? Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Anyways, I've regerested my domain today, and I was wondering if someone > > could > > point me in the right direction for setting up mail, either Sendmail or > > Qmail. > I'd suggest sendmail as far as ease-of-setup goes. You could use Well it's a matter of opinion, but I found sendmail a royal pain to configure if you want anything different from the default configuration -- eg if you want to send everything through your ISP's mail relay upstream, rather than directly to the recipient hosts. It's claimed that the m4 files make it easier, but I just couldn't seem to generate a sendmail.cf from them that did what I wanted it to do. On the other hand qmail is very easy to configure (just change a few control files in /var/qmail/control and give qmail-send a HUP signal) and is *very* well documented. There's a walk-through for the install with which you shouldn't have any problems, and a FAQ which should answer almost any commonly asked question. Once you compile and install it you shouldn't ever need to recompile it, you can control its behaviour pretty thoroughly at runtime. Rahul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message