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Date:      Fri, 27 Apr 2001 08:19:05 -0700
From:      "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>
To:        Chris Phillips <chris@selkie.org>
Cc:        John Kendler <fbsdquestions@hotmail.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Any mail server software that could run on FreeBSD? 
Message-ID:  <200104271519.f3RFJ5c06267@ptavv.es.net>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 27 Apr 2001 07:46:24 PDT." <Pine.BSF.4.21.0104270745250.7719-100000@shell.bchosting.com> 

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> Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 07:46:24 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Chris Phillips <chris@selkie.org>
> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> 
> You're welcome to your opinion.  We could start a flame but let's not.  As
> I state before, sendmail is a great option.
> 
> -Chris Phillips
> 
> On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, John Kendler wrote:
> 
> > umm sendmail is not reccomended, use qmail if you can.

OK. Chris recommends sendmail. John does not and prefers qmail. (FWIW,
I prefer postfix.) But the statement sendmail is recommended is at
best misleading. YOU recommend sendmail and you phrase the response
like it is a generally accepted statement when it is far from it.

I'd look at qmail, postfix, and sendmail. I suspect you will decide to
ditch sendmail after a week of trying to understand configuration
files, but you may love them. :-) If you don't need anything special,
the defaults do work. MC files make life much easier than in the old
days, too.

Qmail and postfix are MUCH easier to configure and Postfix was written
with security in mind from the beginning by the guy at IBM who brought
us tcpwrappers, so tends to do the right things from the start with
little chance of buffer overflow problems and the like.

But make your own choice because, other than personal opinions, none
is "recommended".

R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman@es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634


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