From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 11 23:41:49 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 61EF016A41F for ; Thu, 11 Aug 2005 23:41:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dmacpherson@mainframe.ca) Received: from wale.mainframe.ca (wale.mainframe.ca [209.17.131.74]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF87043D48 for ; Thu, 11 Aug 2005 23:41:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dmacpherson@mainframe.ca) Received: from jupiter.mainframe.ca ([10.0.0.12] helo=mail.mainframe.ca) by wale.mainframe.ca with esmtp (Exim 4.52 (FreeBSD)) id 1E3MgB-0008Dk-5u; Thu, 11 Aug 2005 16:41:43 -0700 Received: from [172.16.139.102] (helo=Mandarin-04.mainframe.ca) by mail.mainframe.ca with esmtp (Exim 4.52 (FreeBSD)) id 1E3Me5-0001zc-9p; Thu, 11 Aug 2005 16:39:33 -0700 From: Derrick MacPherson To: Tom Norris In-Reply-To: <42FBC5BF.9060705@trancegeek.net> References: <42FBC5BF.9060705@trancegeek.net> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Mainframe Entertainment Inc Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 16:41:42 -0700 Message-Id: <1123803702.7279.91.camel@Mandarin-04.mainframe.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.2 (2.0.2-16) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 23:41:49 -0000 On Thu, 2005-08-11 at 17:40 -0400, Tom Norris wrote: > I have finally made the jump from paying people to host my websites to > doing it myself (setting up apache, perl, php, postgresql, and all that > fun stuff.) Now I want to migrate my e-mail addresses over to a FreeBSD > 4.11 machine that lives in a data center. Can any of you recommend a > good MTA (and maybe a book) for someone that knows relatively few things > about the big scary world of e-mail transport? > > Just to throw it out there, one of the things I need to do is to have > the MTA route mail for a few different domains that are pointed towards > the machine on different ip addresses. Is that possible? Exim rocks I've used it for about 8 years.. Postfix is excellent I've looked at it and it seems pretty easy to work with, I think some may like it better as it can be administered through webmin (exim you can't), especially if you want to give some admin privileges. Sendmail's configuration is not trivial. I much prefer using Maildir to store mail, works much better when dealing with a lot of users with a lot of mail.