From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 5 4:37:20 2003 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 9EC6337B401 for ; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 04:37:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from anand.org (natgw.msi-cellular.com [217.113.64.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6C2443F3F for ; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 04:37:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from arb@anand.org) Received: from arb by mobile.anand.org with local (Exim 4.12) id 18gOnZ-0004Rg-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 05 Feb 2003 13:37:05 +0100 Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 13:37:05 +0100 From: Anand Buddhdev To: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: need some advice on MTA Message-ID: <20030205123705.GA17038@anand.org> References: <3E4020A7.6030807@myrealbox.com> <20030205120228.GU393@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030205120228.GU393@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 01:02:29PM +0100, Roman Neuhauser wrote: > I run four Postfixes (one of them with Courier-IMAP), and one Qmail > with vpopmail. > > Postfix is IMO easier to install and administer, but doesn't have a > point'n'click interface. > > It also looks like Postfix is a much faster moving target than > Qmail, e. g. the virtual address/mailbox support has been evolving > quite a lot, and the configuration changed in Postfix-2. > > I wouldn't recommend Courier; I don't know the SMTP part of the > pack, but the IMAP server is pretty admin-hostile in that it doesn't > log almost anything at all, so when you run into trouble, you're > left to guessing, and hacking the source. Courier-IMAP is not admin-hostile. You can enable debugging, and it will log a lot of information. The SMTP server and client part of courier is also nice, robust and friendly to other sites, and has many useful features (RBL checking, rejecting spam, flexible aliasing, SMTP authentication, SSL support) all out of the box. And if you install the entire courier suite, you also get a POP server, webmail server and mailing list manager, and a webadmin CGI to configure it all easily. Courier's SMTP server takes its basic design from qmail, but has gone far beyond qmail in features, and has made many improvements over those parts of qmail that many people have long been criticising. Take a look at it more closely before trashing it so trivially. -- Anand Buddhdev http://anand.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message