From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Nov 15 3:11: 7 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from tank.skynet.be (tank.skynet.be [195.238.2.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35C4F14EFC for ; Mon, 15 Nov 1999 03:11:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from root@foxbert.skynet.be) Received: from foxbert.skynet.be (foxbert.skynet.be [195.238.1.45]) by tank.skynet.be (8.9.3/odie-relay-v1.0) with ESMTP id MAA25435; Mon, 15 Nov 1999 12:10:51 +0100 (MET) Received: (from root@localhost) by foxbert.skynet.be (8.9.1/jovi-pop-2.1) id MAA28092; Mon, 15 Nov 1999 12:10:47 +0100 (MET) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: blk@foxbert.skynet.be Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <19991114141001.26938.qmail@hotmail.com> References: <19991114141001.26938.qmail@hotmail.com> Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1999 12:08:46 +0100 To: "Herbert Chang" , stable@FreeBSD.ORG From: Brad Knowles Subject: Re: Which mail server is the best? qmail, postfix or exim? Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 10:10 PM -0600 1999/11/14, 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? As others have noted, this is a bit of a religious issue. However, you may be interested to know that the FreeBSD mailing lists are handled by postfix, and that the folks at pobox.com use postfix as their MTA. In addition, postfix is designed to be as much of a drop-in replacement for sendmail as is feasible, while other MTAs (such as qmail and perhaps exim) are not. -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy ____________________________________________________________________ |o| Brad Knowles, Belgacom Skynet NV/SA |o| |o| Systems Architect, News & FTP Admin Rue Col. Bourg, 124 |o| |o| Phone/Fax: +32-2-706.11.11/12.49 B-1140 Brussels |o| |o| http://www.skynet.be Belgium |o| \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ Unix is like a wigwam -- no Gates, no Windows, and an Apache inside. Unix is very user-friendly. It's just picky who its friends are. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message