From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 27 16:25:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1BC3E37B422 for ; Fri, 27 Apr 2001 16:25:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 48762 invoked by uid 100); 27 Apr 2001 23:25:53 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15082.1.730947.779596@guru.mired.org> Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 18:25:53 -0500 To: "Kevin Oberman" , educatee2001@yahoo.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Any mail server software that could run on FreeBSD? In-Reply-To: <65105558@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Kevin Oberman types: > 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. Qmail was also written from the ground up with security in mind, and Dan's credentials are pretty good, though he does tend to grate a lot of people the wrong way. If you upgrade your FBSD regularly and can run an out of the box sendmail configuration, you get the advantage of someone else's efforts at tracking bugs and incorporating features (I'd not call them features) such as ORBs. The closest thing to an official recommendation I've found is this line from the -questions mail: Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 538) I.e. - the FreeBSD mail servers are running postfix. Next time I have some spare time and a need to play with mail servers, I'm probably going to look into postfix. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message