From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 10 19:12:19 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B44A106566C for ; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:12:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from delphij@delphij.net) Received: from tarsier.geekcn.org (tarsier.geekcn.org [IPv6:2001:470:a803::1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7C9D8FC25 for ; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:12:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.geekcn.org (tarsier.geekcn.org [211.166.10.233]) by tarsier.geekcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50C63A56870; Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:12:17 +0800 (CST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at geekcn.org Received: from tarsier.geekcn.org ([211.166.10.233]) by mail.geekcn.org (mail.geekcn.org [211.166.10.233]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id PoQwZXM81+xM; Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:12:07 +0800 (CST) Received: from delta.delphij.net (drawbridge.ixsystems.com [206.40.55.65]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by tarsier.geekcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 86047A5680B; Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:12:06 +0800 (CST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; s=default; d=delphij.net; c=nofws; q=dns; h=message-id:date:from:reply-to:organization:user-agent: mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to: x-enigmail-version:openpgp:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=CBBzVvMN0XwuoL4EqB31stlys6r8+MvYdscpwYAbhgjwZ9v7YxrmIlbm8O9XZ0PId liLehb6TL5qCqtJS+QBcQ== Message-ID: <4B97EF02.8040905@delphij.net> Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:12:02 -0800 From: Xin LI Organization: The Geek China Organization User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100304 Thunderbird/3.0.3 ThunderBrowse/3.2.8.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Steven Hartland References: <1AE2F4B0675743BAB0C54954FBA787CA@multiplay.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <1AE2F4B0675743BAB0C54954FBA787CA@multiplay.co.uk> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 OpenPGP: id=3FCA37C1; url=http://www.delphij.net/delphij.asc Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: To sendmail or to postfix that is the question? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: d@delphij.net List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:12:19 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2010/03/10 08:47, Steven Hartland wrote: > A few key question come to mind:- > 1. Has sendmail's config moved away from the black art > it once was? No, but the m4 based configuration would make your life easier. > 2. Is postfix that much easier? Yes, I would highly recommend using postfix if you don't want to spend a lot of time on mail server. As a bonus postfix have better track record in terms of security. > 3. What would people use for: > 3.1. POP / IMAP support? Dovecot or cyrus-imapd. I'd personally recommend dovecot for new deployments, since it supports features like using different storage for different subfolders (i.e. use Mailbox for archive, etc). > 3.2. Web Mail? Connecting from IMAP: squirrelmail, roundcube, etc., I'm not a big fan of web mail though. > 3.2. AV / Spam filtering? amavisd-new + clamav. Note that clamav is somewhat CPU hungry if you have high e-mail volume, consider deploying multiple layer of delivery system (multiple MX serving anti-spam purpose, and deliver to a group of backend system; this could be an overkill for small to medium sized companies, though). Cheers, - -- Xin LI http://www.delphij.net/ FreeBSD - The Power to Serve! Live free or die -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (FreeBSD) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJLl+8CAAoJEATO+BI/yjfBX1wIAJgT8QPLi7H2iS2RBJ8J2JDr 62ngaY0q099b8ajCgiIPWm7IMyvlEyIf3FVde9tbQls2UiojDkJR8Frd/rNGBfja mF/6tMSs77skN3vyoZzX1hj98rMbLx7ccPUwzZTFxgOsoRXpFKu+V+t9TDfqiRh5 3gSBlyinqTuoQzpO9PPjRACzY0sZLtTsyy2GoX52HeSjKn4kh2SogTcf1I9Y/+cq Eap91F4J8vKmqHh4Eqm5qAJ+WT2JwkwQpnHAjG6bej4x05kmNE6OLT7O83dip1Ga RzafJRgCPIgkSeh7f/v+rCv653jxSNswo1kJ+6HfDKkUc4l+naoP+ZKL1bo2RKo= =G5Ri -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----