From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 17 14: 9:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sabrina.bluetie.com (sabrina.bluetie.com [208.48.25.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9274937B651 for ; Wed, 17 May 2000 14:09:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mpd@bluetie.net) Received: from hoorj (hoorj.bluetie.net [208.48.25.199]) by sabrina.bluetie.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2650.21) id 29VYHL28; Wed, 17 May 2000 17:19:52 -0400 Message-ID: <000c01bfc044$379405a0$c71930d0@hoorj> From: "Michael Dungan" To: References: <3922D319.D1D59CF8@wmptl.com> <20000518023334.E16497@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Subject: Re: Guidance with Sendmail or Qmail Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 17:09:40 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Also check out postfix (/usr/ports/mail/postfix). I personally swear by it now, after having tried several other MTAs (including, but not limited to, sendmail and qmail.) Mike ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rahul Siddharthan" To: "Nathan Vidican" Cc: "Robert Small" ; Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2000 5:03 PM Subject: Re: Guidance with Sendmail or Qmail > > > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message