From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 3 17:31:22 2005 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 48DDE16A4CE for ; Sun, 3 Apr 2005 17:31:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: from metroid.prideindesign.com (netblock-66-159-250-220.dslextreme.com [66.159.250.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A844843D45 for ; Sun, 3 Apr 2005 17:31:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from joshua.lewis@prideindesign.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by metroid.prideindesign.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16F17AC860; Sun, 3 Apr 2005 10:32:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from metroid.prideindesign.com ([127.0.0.1])port 10024) with ESMTP id 34983-06; Sun, 3 Apr 2005 10:32:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.101] (netblock-66-159-250-221.dslextreme.com [66.159.250.221]) by metroid.prideindesign.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC3E4AC822; Sun, 3 Apr 2005 10:32:39 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/11.1.0.040913 Date: Sun, 03 Apr 2005 10:31:06 -0700 From: Joshua Lewis To: Message-ID: Mime-version: 1.0 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at example.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Which mail server is the best for me? 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: Sun, 03 Apr 2005 17:31:22 -0000 Gosh could you have picked a harder question? That is like saying Blondes, Brunets or Red Heads? You will have to read up about several MTA=B9s and figure out what suites you= r needs. It will take a good few hours of reading and if you are anything lik= e me with a wife job and three kids then time is precious. So to try and help you get on your way don=B9t use sendmail. I am partial to Postfix although with that said I have never used anything else. I did several days worth of reading and Postfix was my choice due to it=B9s ease of use, flexibility and security. Ease of Use: If you are only receiving e-mail for FQDN of your box (/etc/rc.conf) then right after you have finished installing Postfix you are ready to go. It uses sensible defaults and is a breeze to work with. At that point you will be using local system accounts and MBOX format. You ought to read abou= t the benefits and drawbacks or both to decide if that is really what you want. MBOX is easy enough to change however changing your logins to use something other then the local /etc/masster.passwd database takes some extr= a finagling. Again the how toos are a great help. Flexibility=20 Now with that said I am hosting e-mail for several of my web customers. So I wanted to set up a MySQL back end to manage the domains instead of using text files. Security I also wanted to add additional security and installed TLS and SASL. As well as quota=B9s so my users don=B9t suck up all my disk space. So I took it t= o the next level and it took quite a bit more time to setup. So if you want a MTA that will be a breeze to setup but can have the flexibility to use more features you can shake a stick at while maintaining the KISS process (Keep it simple stupid). Then Postfix is a good choice. There are A LOT of how too=B9s on postfix out on the net. Take a look at the documentation on the postfix website postfix.org. The how too=B9s and the postfix documentation are separate pages on their site.