From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 28 3:28:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tethys.valhalla.net (tethys.valhalla.net [195.26.32.112]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B535C37B422 for ; Sat, 28 Apr 2001 03:28:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@tethys.valhalla.net) Received: by tethys.valhalla.net (Postfix, from userid 500) id F009032E80; Sat, 28 Apr 2001 11:28:40 +0100 (BST) Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 11:28:40 +0100 From: Mark Drayton To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: [going OT] Re: Any mail server software that could run on FreeBSD? Message-ID: <20010428112840.B7944@tethys.valhalla.net> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <200104271735.f3RHZCc07548@ptavv.es.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from chris@selkie.org on Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 01:34:39PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Chris Phillips (chris@selkie.org) wrote: > On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > NetBSD has recently changed their default mailer to postfix and > > there has been discussion of the same for FreeBSD, but I doubt it > > will happen because the FreeBSD core team rightly places great > > importance on not breaking things for the installed user base and I > > don't think that there is any tool to translate a .cf file (or even > > a .mc file) into a postfix configuration. > > With the amount of sendmail users out there, I would be surprised if > this didn't make new users or those who have never used postfix before > shy away from NetBSD. I'm very much under the opinion that when you > have the size of market share that sendmail does, there would be > better help resources. I know for a fact that there is a ton of > documentation on sendmail and of course the O'Reilly book. Last time > I checked there were no such books on exim, postfix or qmail. Maybe > that has changed, but having a book published by O'Reilly on a piece > of software is usually a pretty good indication that it is a widely > used piece of software. The latest version of the O'Reilly book was published in Jan 1997, over 4 years ago when sendmail really was *the only* available mature MTA. From amazon.com: Exim: The Mail Transport Agent (O'Reilly) - due for release this month Postfix (Sams) - due for release on 18th of May Running Qmail (Sams) - out now -- Mark Drayton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message