From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Nov 14 8:59:21 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E457115007 for ; Sun, 14 Nov 1999 08:59:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.0.4] ident=exim) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.092 #1) id 11n1Pc-00043I-00; Sun, 14 Nov 1999 15:17:52 +0000 Received: (from ben) by strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk (Exim 3.092 #1) id 11n1Pc-000089-00; Sun, 14 Nov 1999 15:17:52 +0000 Date: Sun, 14 Nov 1999 15:17:52 +0000 From: Ben Smithurst To: Herbert Chang Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Which mail server is the best? qmail, postfix or exim? Message-ID: <19991114151752.B343@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <19991114141001.26938.qmail@hotmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <19991114141001.26938.qmail@hotmail.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Herbert Chang wrote: > I want to install a mail server on FreeBSD. There are many ports of mail > server on http://www.freebsd.org/ports/mail.html. I wonder which is the > best: qmail, postfix, exim or other? You do know that Sendmail is included with the default system, don't you? That may be good enough for you. I personally like Exim best, but as someone else said, everyone has different views, and this is a rather "religious" issue. -- Ben Smithurst | PGP: 0x99392F7D ben@scientia.demon.co.uk | key available from keyservers and | ben+pgp@scientia.demon.co.uk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message