From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 11 23:03:05 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA70916A41F for ; Thu, 11 Aug 2005 23:03:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from fbsdlists@gmail.com) Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.204]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C81C43D48 for ; Thu, 11 Aug 2005 23:03:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from fbsdlists@gmail.com) Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id z6so304913nzd for ; Thu, 11 Aug 2005 16:03:05 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=hSCu0YAMrsglurz0OmlWd1ekb2ewMZKIrc2CXOwQBBZjFDrgSP6kUhSGwMBqYWAPBZOgorzhuKFBcpFYXT5t6QSY0CQjZyfL/5Ccu1opCmZh7R1O07O+Gld9A/vdlzz5Xo4ABrR6Y4noOTXAvKTeIeAW1xyMlKwHx3Ik+lUXyPw= Received: by 10.36.252.7 with SMTP id z7mr2228514nzh; Thu, 11 Aug 2005 16:03:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.36.221.21 with HTTP; Thu, 11 Aug 2005 16:03:04 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <54db439905081116033a6bdbf3@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 19:03:05 -0400 From: Bob Johnson To: Tom Norris In-Reply-To: <42FBC5BF.9060705@trancegeek.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <42FBC5BF.9060705@trancegeek.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Any suggestions for a MTA for a new admin? 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, 11 Aug 2005 23:03:06 -0000 On 8/11/05, Tom Norris wrote: > I have finally made the jump from paying people to host my websites to=20 > doing it myself (setting up apache, perl, php, postgresql, and all that= =20 > fun stuff.) Now I want to migrate my e-mail addresses over to a FreeBSD= =20 > 4.11 machine that lives in a data center. Can any of you recommend a=20 > good MTA (and maybe a book) for someone that knows relatively few things= =20 > about the big scary world of e-mail transport? >=20 My list of candidates would be Courier, Postfix, or sendmail. I've never used Postfix, but I'm going to be giving it a test drive soon.=20 Exim should probably be a candidate, but I haven't ever looked at it.=20 Cyrus has some merit as an enterprise mail server, but is probably overkill for most users. Stay away from Gmail. It is nasty in more ways than one. Courier includes an IMAP and POP server as well as an MTA, works well, is very featurefull and reasonably customizable. Documentation is pretty good. Its structure and philosophy are similar to Gmail, but implemented much better (If you are thinking about Gmail, use Courier instead). I like it as an all-in-one mail server solution.=20 http://www.courier-mta.org Postfix is very featurefull, very customizable, and very popular, so it ought to be easy to get help. http://www.postfix.org Sendmail is built in to FreeBSD, is much more secure and much more flexible than the older versions that drove people to write the others in the first place, so it is a valid candidate.=20 http://www.sendmail.org/ also see http://www.acme.com/mail_filtering/ for an example of what can be done with it. > Just to throw it out there, one of the things I need to do is to have=20 > the MTA route mail for a few different domains that are pointed towards= =20 > the machine on different ip addresses. Is that possible? That should be possible with any of them. - Bob