From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 13 17:08:17 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5762137B401 for ; Sun, 13 Apr 2003 17:08:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailout.informatik.tu-muenchen.de (mailout.informatik.tu-muenchen.de [131.159.0.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A99643F85 for ; Sun, 13 Apr 2003 17:08:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from barner@in.tum.de) Received: from mailrelay1.informatik.tu-muenchen.de (mailrelay1.informatik.tu-muenchen.de [131.159.254.5]) by mailout.informatik.tu-muenchen.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id AAC88616A; Mon, 14 Apr 2003 02:08:15 +0200 (MEST) Received: from mail.informatik.tu-muenchen.de (mail.informatik.tu-muenchen.de [131.159.0.26]) by mailrelay1.informatik.tu-muenchen.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CB657943; Mon, 14 Apr 2003 02:08:15 +0200 (MEST) Received: from zi025.glhnet.mhn.de (unknown [129.187.19.157]) by mail.informatik.tu-muenchen.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85ADD6CB24; Mon, 14 Apr 2003 02:08:15 +0200 (MEST) Received: by zi025.glhnet.mhn.de (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B0C96371C2; Mon, 14 Apr 2003 02:08:13 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 02:08:12 +0200 From: Simon Barner To: "Defryn, Guy" Message-ID: <20030414000812.GA13347@zi025.glhnet.mhn.de> References: <9EA1E9775D329F4CB45B259FCA43F79F63F944@its-xchg3.massey.ac.nz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="uAKRQypu60I7Lcqm" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <9EA1E9775D329F4CB45B259FCA43F79F63F944@its-xchg3.massey.ac.nz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Opinion on mail server setup X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 00:08:17 -0000 --uAKRQypu60I7Lcqm Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Hi, > I have a freebsd box that I am using as web server/database server. > I would like to set it up as a mail server for my registered domain name > (only a few email addresses). > Can anyone give some ideas on what to use and maybe where I can find > documentation? As a MTA, I'd recommend 'postfix', since it's rather easy to set up (ports/postfix). Documentation can be found at http://www.postfix.org. If you install it, be sure to have a look at the example configuration files in /usr/local/etc/postfix. Be careful not to build an open mail relay (consider the use of ASMTP)! If you decide to use sendmail that comes with the FreeBSD base system, there is a chapter in the handbook (reading through that might be a good idea anyways) http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mail.html. I don't have a lot of experience with pop3 or imap servers (which you will probably need in order to acces your mail), so I cannot comment on that. Cheers, Simon --uAKRQypu60I7Lcqm Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+mfvsCkn+/eutqCoRAlrCAJ4khdHeeQEGk15YK5pddTGbq/Mb7wCglEgA /xgVx6teN2SVZj0y7x2Owv0= =4tPx -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --uAKRQypu60I7Lcqm--