From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 23 16:58:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tharmas.rintrah.org (dhcp065-024-230-235.insight.rr.com [65.24.230.235]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 835E437B413 for ; Sun, 23 Sep 2001 16:58:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 23395 invoked by uid 0); 23 Sep 2001 23:56:27 -0000 Received: from osx.rintrah.org (HELO ?10.0.0.26?) (10.0.0.26) by tharmas.rintrah.org with SMTP; 23 Sep 2001 23:56:27 -0000 From: Devin Smith To: Cc: Kory Hamzeh Subject: Re: Looking for a sendmail replacement Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2001 19:58:43 -0400 Message-Id: <20010923235843.32148@mail.rintrah.org> In-Reply-To: <002501c1447c$73293b40$14ce21c7@avatar.com> References: <002501c1447c$73293b40$14ce21c7@avatar.com> X-Mailer: CTM PowerMail 3.0.9 carbon MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >I'm looking for a MTA to replace sendmail. My requirements are: > >1. Easy to understand and configure >2. Supports parallel delivery. >3. Easy to understand and configure >4. Supports virtual hosting >5. Easy to understand and configure > >I looked at qmail and passed on it. I need the same functionality of sendmail [snip] you might want to look at qmail just one more time... if you follow the documentation *exactly* as the author lays out, it is extremely easy to understand and configure. It even has FreeBSD specific instructions. The hardest part, I found, was finding that the documentation existed. So here it is: http://www.qmail.org/man/misc/INSTALL.txt All the files referred to in that document may be found by name here: http://www.qmail.org/man/misc/ All I have to say is that anyone who takes time to painstakingly document how to add *user accounts* for 5 different Unix variants for their program is doing a pretty thorough job. Example from INSTALL.ids: FreeBSD 2.2: # pw groupadd nofiles # pw useradd alias -g nofiles -d /var/qmail/alias -s /nonexistent # pw useradd qmaild -g nofiles -d /var/qmail -s /nonexistent # pw useradd qmaill -g nofiles -d /var/qmail -s /nonexistent # pw useradd qmailp -g nofiles -d /var/qmail -s /nonexistent # pw groupadd qmail # pw useradd qmailq -g qmail -d /var/qmail -s /nonexistent # pw useradd qmailr -g qmail -d /var/qmail -s /nonexistent # pw useradd qmails -g qmail -d /var/qmail -s /nonexistent --devin -- Devin Smith | Master of nothing in particular http://127.0.0.1 | devin-freebsdquestions@rintrah.org "How many people do *you* know whose mail server can handle 650MB email attachments?" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message