From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sun Aug 7 15:50:00 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58EE3BB0D83 for ; Sun, 7 Aug 2016 15:50:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from the.lists@mgm51.com) Received: from oneyou.mcmli.com (oneyou.mcmli.com [IPv6:2607:f2f8:af30::100]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "oneyou.mcmli.com", Issuer "RapidSSL SHA256 CA - G3" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 33967144E for ; Sun, 7 Aug 2016 15:50:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from the.lists@mgm51.com) Received: from sentry.24cl.com (sentry.24cl.com [IPv6:2001:558:6017:94:4cfb:c574:24a0:7961]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "sentry.24cl.com", Issuer "Mike's Certificate Authority" (verified OK)) by oneyou.mcmli.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3s6lNk75PZz4D01 for ; Sun, 7 Aug 2016 11:49:58 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=mgm51.com; s=mgm51-02; t=1470584999; bh=n4LyXJkvL7oH1Td8V5F441uWbPfOo+ksR7h7bJrNU40=; h=Subject:To:From:Message-ID:Date; b=sUQJB4icnkWC+DIheJE50o7Yfza12K5hx6dSBiCJZ/WpVx3ggl0OkwW3X9vrHiiKz 8HEw+wtq+n2LwZ+MEfMeSVhViwuctBdSF0xnGq+CBzDaDaW5iKucxHITHT9XQAPbPi f8bbXsfChSDo7i53uQUMbChb51HtBGF/dpN9XUsoRl00oB0Mnx9PfbfMiMPhlNvM/p Of3FNXiqykJlxku6k2qQa4obXXD50KmZBG2/gT0PnO+t97rA+8yEW/MZkXrblud7at rmefqn4ZtSXTUhZMnBuhNITFQD1LCIPPK7fc3sbWTUB28zdvNr4S/5m5dEAs/PnQAy Ro3NTAK+2g7Ow== Received: from [IPv6:fdcf:b715:2f4d:1:2588:4576:7bf4:140e] (unknown [IPv6:fdcf:b715:2f4d:1:2588:4576:7bf4:140e]) by sentry.24cl.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3s6lNj6H16zGHHD for ; Sun, 7 Aug 2016 11:49:57 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: Need advice for setting up mail server To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20160807153031.GB9178@len-t420.klaas> From: Mike Message-ID: <1629633b-c8a7-6181-446b-528b6357b262@mgm51.com> Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2016 11:49:57 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20160807153031.GB9178@len-t420.klaas> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.22 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2016 15:50:00 -0000 On 8/7/2016 11:30 AM, Niklaas Baudet von Gersdorff wrote: > Manish Jain [2016-08-07 15:24 +0000] : > >> I am looking for a good advice for some easy-to-setup mail >> server solution for FreeBSD 10.3. Is qmail still the easiest >> thing to set up for mail, or there is something better than >> that ? I keep security concerns for the mail server solution at >> a low level - fo r me, the thing has to be easy to set up and >> maintain, rather than worry too much about eavesdropping/MITM. > > I'm not a professional but was able to set-up a Postfix system > with Dovecot IMAP and LMTP. I guess, it depends on what you need; > maybe OpenSMTPD is a solution for you. I got quite interested > into the project. As far as I can judge it's easy to set up for > a simple set-up. > > However, I don't have a lot of experience i.e. I've never tried > neither qmail nor the traditional sendmail. > I second Postfix as the MTA. Easy to set up and most excellent documentation, with a very helpful support mailing list. I use Dovecot for my personal email, and I found it relatively easy to set up and very flexible.