From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 15 11:54:20 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5D4EFAC9 for ; Sun, 15 Mar 2015 11:54:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-la0-x22a.google.com (mail-la0-x22a.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:4010:c03::22a]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D153B7B2 for ; Sun, 15 Mar 2015 11:54:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: by lamx15 with SMTP id x15so19751271lam.3 for ; Sun, 15 Mar 2015 04:54:17 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; bh=h5BJ8Edm7Sr0DNPsBm8kcWRuPbkt1LnMAvgEM/v3fMk=; b=tOhowleTq8hF5jeVR2PKjsNSKTborF9/rJEeqI+dgbvNVklY2lZWXRZqtc9YnyhoYW Hsuwi0YOAQ1kprRZQ5R+70+zP/qcTZsRGHS4LcqFyqBW/uiSMdOXBbkn1BDv++0QNh22 uCXTwrIpVlgD/yF/SMcUecanRKdiM+VqA1NtCdrudIo6OO1KueFqswhzucZNTuVL1iGp AG9dV4P4y3JgxRY85a50DysKdhwgwfDCnzmJOps27ZnLQ+Jk5X4fIjxeZUmrYARKr+CQ 7nV8COB5K6ZirhMDqfhNvlVqETzpuVYyBLW6zVkhX9tLFb/gMR4qWYXWCTr/eHz2zk+1 bw1w== X-Received: by 10.112.141.168 with SMTP id rp8mr24256268lbb.46.1426420457744; Sun, 15 Mar 2015 04:54:17 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.112.13.37 with HTTP; Sun, 15 Mar 2015 04:53:37 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: From: Odhiambo Washington Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2015 14:53:37 +0300 Message-ID: Subject: Re: The mail server situation To: Manish Jain Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.18-1 Cc: User Questions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2015 11:54:20 -0000 On 15 March 2015 at 14:34, Manish Jain wrote: > Hi, > > I have been trying to set up a mail server on a new FreeBSD 10.1 (amd64) > machine. It is turning into quite a challenge, which I am having to persist > with simply because I had set up qmail to work nicely 9 years back for > another company on 5.3 or (5.4). > > I suppose every administrator for mail faces the following situation when > taking up a mail server migration : > > 1) email user addresses are existing and have to be served via IMAP/POP + > SMTP as in place (except elementary re-configuration on the client). The > server has a public, static IP bound to an MX record (or so I believe) > 2) access to mail via web > 3) spam control via any working plugin like spamassassin > 4) optional support for ssl/tls/ipv6 (although I would frankly like all of > these locked up in their own jails) > > There are tons of HowTo's out there on the web, all suffering from similar > symptoms : > > 1) Broken : it turns out that qmail is not even working on FreeBSD 10.1. > God knows why the port was shipped in the first place > 2) Very poor documentation. FreeBSD's famed handbook is a starting > example. It begins the mail section with the presumption that the user does > not know what is email and tries to define it in terms of traditional mail. > (I wonder why the authors even have to presume that the user is acquainted > with the concept of mail). Then it moves to sendmail configuration which > begins with the presumption that the user is already aware of terms like > CONNECT, RELAY and SKIP. As far as I am concerned, RELAY means giving a > letter for my girl-friend to a go-between I trust. SKIP means hopping in > the air exactly once when I receive a reply. (Hopping is more difficult to > define, but you can try the dictionary) > > Is there any mail server which : > > a) just works with basic commandline skills like > cd/ls/grep/sed/awk/tar/find/locate (and of course, the famous copy and > paste) > b) the documentation for which works as it is on 10.1 amd64 without making > too many excuses > > You can try and discourage me with stuff like "Read online documentation". > But that only opens up the discussion to many more naive administrators who > will pound mailing lists with help questions. > > -- > Regards, > > Manish Jain > > Go with Exim. You could use Exim4U - http://www.exim4u.org/html/documentation.html -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 "I can't hear you -- I'm using the scrambler."