From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 16 00:11:17 2004 Return-Path: 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 2695816A4CE for ; Fri, 16 Jan 2004 00:11:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de (moutng.kundenserver.de [212.227.126.187]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 788E243D66 for ; Fri, 16 Jan 2004 00:11:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jan.muenther@nruns.com) Received: from [212.227.126.209] (helo=mrelayng.kundenserver.de) by moutng.kundenserver.de with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 1AhP4J-0007Jz-00; Fri, 16 Jan 2004 09:11:03 +0100 Received: from [212.202.65.44] (helo=ergo.nruns.com) by mrelayng.kundenserver.de with asmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 1AhP4J-0003Bc-00; Fri, 16 Jan 2004 09:11:03 +0100 Received: by ergo.nruns.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 2913D673; Fri, 16 Jan 2004 09:10:29 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 09:10:28 +0100 From: jan.muenther@nruns.com To: Jonathan Chen Message-ID: <20040116081028.GA2485@ergo.nruns.com> References: <200401152000.00111.ecrist@adtechintegrated.com> <20040116032014.GC93061@grimoire.chen.org.nz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040116032014.GC93061@grimoire.chen.org.nz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Provags-ID: kundenserver.de abuse@kundenserver.de auth:9a8a46f2b40f7808f7699def63624ac2 cc: Eric F Crist cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mail server? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 08:11:17 -0000 Howdy, > > configuration has always seemed pretty straight-forward. If I stay with > > sendmail, should I download and compile from sources? You should always use the ports collection, or a package, for what it's worth. By the way, if you think sendmail configuration is straightforward, I don't think there's much MTA software out there that could still scare you, not even qmail :P > If you choose to go with sendmail, you should use the base-system's. > It's pretty up to date with critical patches and the like. I personally deprecated sendmail ages ago, for two mai reasons: - it's a cruft, one big old leviathan and delivers mail at according speed - its security history I know both points are arguable and I don't want to troll off another holy MTA war here, just saying that these two points did it for me. > > I personally prefer Postfix, which is also used by the mail-servers at > FreeBSD.org. The UCE blocking support offered by it is pretty good, > and configuration is straightforward. You don't even need to remove > the base-system's MTA, just tweak rc.conf and mailer.conf and you're > up and away. I couldn't agree more. Postfix is fast, flexible and way secure and its configuration and general handling isn't as messy as qmail's. For the most part, all you have to worry about is one central config file and it aims to integrate well into a system replacing sendmail. Try it. Cheers, J.