From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Feb 11 10:41:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from loki.intrepid.net (intrepid.net [204.71.127.3]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 985683DBF for ; Fri, 11 Feb 2000 10:41:48 -0800 (PST) Received: (from mark@localhost) by loki.intrepid.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA13946; Fri, 11 Feb 2000 13:41:28 -0500 Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 13:41:27 -0500 From: Mark Conway Wirt To: Stuart Henderson Cc: Inix ZixinG , freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Email Server Message-ID: <20000211134127.O7592@intrepid.net> References: <200002111536.HAA04712@www.geocrawler.com> <20000211131006.L7592@intrepid.net> <20000211182727.P28822@naiad.eclipse.net.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20000211182727.P28822@naiad.eclipse.net.uk>; from sthen@naiad.eclipse.net.uk on Fri, Feb 11, 2000 at 06:27:27PM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, Feb 11, 2000 at 06:27:27PM +0000, Stuart Henderson wrote: > > The great thing is, these days there is a good choice of > MTAs in the ports collection, so it's not too hard to try them > all out. > > > I've no experince with postfix, but I've heard good things about it. > > I like Postfix - if you compare unmodified releases (rather than > patched versions), it's more tolerant of badly-written clients than > qmail (though less tolerant than Sendmail). That's true -- if you do use qmail, you'll want to apply the "brain-dead DNS" patch and the "only \n at the end of the lines" patch, to insure maximum compatibility. Both patches are on qmail.org. The DNS patch is in the qmail of the latest ports collection. --Mark To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message