From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 12 16:47:34 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DE0F16A401 for ; Mon, 12 Feb 2007 16:47:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from j65nko@gmail.com) Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com (nz-out-0506.google.com [64.233.162.232]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4011613C4A6 for ; Mon, 12 Feb 2007 16:47:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from j65nko@gmail.com) Received: by nz-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i11so1748801nzh for ; Mon, 12 Feb 2007 08:47:33 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=G8eX3tlJV3Ui0lgjP6ba/KGparIxzanG0evN16XYEfie+NKtCKDYBri3750oc+DXj5DTuTZdbPIvw934CgjbvdbZrfMGmM1rIJ5ggU8EFf0LINl9+3VXzONKSZKYy1FBzMFDld5g1ePrXSgA1B8qqZgaeW3KETvnJopBLhlbfaQ= Received: by 10.64.181.12 with SMTP id d12mr20820398qbf.1171298853441; Mon, 12 Feb 2007 08:47:33 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.65.211.18 with HTTP; Mon, 12 Feb 2007 08:47:33 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <19861fba0702120847j76be798eocc8ce91c652aa251@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 17:47:33 +0100 From: J65nko To: "Ted Mittelstaedt" In-Reply-To: <006801c74d91$b0430f50$3c01a8c0@coolf89ea26645> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <200702100157.22538.lists@jnielsen.net> <006801c74d91$b0430f50$3c01a8c0@coolf89ea26645> Cc: Ray , John Nielsen , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mail server recomendations (was: is the list the right place toask?) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 16:47:34 -0000 On 2/11/07, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: [big snip] > > I would caution anyone against using the alternatives. There are a lot of > people > that use them successfully, but sendmail is far more popular in terms of > total > installs - this is no doubt because it is used in the larger mail servers on > the > Internet, and the alternatives are more used on home or small servers. The > reason you want to use Sendmail is that once you learn how to use it, that > is knowledge that you have a much higher chance of re-using in the future. > Is this an effort to convince FreeBSD.org to stop using postfix? ;) $ host freebsd.org freebsd.org has address 69.147.83.40 freebsd.org mail is handled by 10 mx1.freebsd.org. $ telnet mx1.freebsd.org 25 Trying 69.147.83.52... Connected to mx1.freebsd.org. Escape character is '^]'. 220 mx1.freebsd.org ESMTP Postfix (Postfix Rules!) quit 221 2.0.0 Bye Connection closed by foreign host $ No, this is ain't a flame bait ;) =Adriaan=