From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 17 22:26:26 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 1F67216A4CE for ; Sat, 17 Jan 2004 22:26:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.romat.com (mail.romat.com [212.143.245.3]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87BA043D39 for ; Sat, 17 Jan 2004 22:26:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gilad_bsd@romat.com) Received: from localhost (localhost.lan [127.0.0.1]) by mail.romat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18867EB2B2; Sun, 18 Jan 2004 08:26:20 +0200 (IST) Received: from mail.romat.com ([192.168.1.10]) by localhost (ladon.lan [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 28950-04; Sun, 18 Jan 2004 08:26:18 +0200 (IST) Received: from romat.com (unknown [192.168.1.199]) by mail.romat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31753EB2A9; Sun, 18 Jan 2004 08:26:18 +0200 (IST) Message-ID: <400A25ED.4060408@romat.com> Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 08:21:33 +0200 From: Gilad Rom Organization: Romat Telecom User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030915 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: jan.muenther@nruns.com References: <200401152000.00111.ecrist@adtechintegrated.com> <20040116032014.GC93061@grimoire.chen.org.nz> <20040116081028.GA2485@ergo.nruns.com> In-Reply-To: <20040116081028.GA2485@ergo.nruns.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: Eric F Crist cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org cc: Jonathan Chen 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: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 06:26:26 -0000 jan.muenther@nruns.com wrote: > 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. > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > Up to a month ago, I've never installed a mail server in my life. And then, all of the sudden, I had to. I used Postfix from the ports collection, and together with the online manuals, I had a production mail server in under an hour. Configuration is _VERY_ straight-forward. Since then, I had used the same configuration for 2 other production mail servers, each with hundreds of users. Postfix "just works", which for me, is the most important quality. Gilad.