Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 09:46:09 -0400 From: "Aryeh M. Friedman" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help with setting up a mail server Message-ID: <20100720094609.02f88f0baryeh.friedman%gmail.com@flosoft.no-ip.biz> In-Reply-To: <20100720093328.4f1bd5d0@scorpio> References: <20100720092644.28643f19aryeh.friedman%gmail.com@flosoft.no-ip.biz> <20100720093328.4f1bd5d0@scorpio>
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On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 09:33:28 -0400 Jerry <freebsd.user@seibercom.net> wrote: > On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 09:26:44 -0400 > Aryeh M. Friedman <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> articulated: > > > I am a consultant and was retained by my client to setup qmail or > > exim on a VPS running 8.0-STABLE (i386). After setting up the DNS > > (A record and MX record) we have been unable to send or receive > > mail. The client has/had a working script for installing qmail on > > 7.1-STABLE but it seems to not work on 8.0-STABLE. They are using > > the same VPS provider who this 7.1-STABLE install script worked > > under. I have tried everything I can think of to make it work > > including asking obvious questions on -questions@. > > > > I informed the client that the task is likely beyond me capabilities > > but I would help recruit someone who would be able to do it at a > > reasonable fee paid to them (I am acting as a no cost middle man on > > this [I am helping the client for free since I was unable to get it > > done]). > > > > Please send any ideas and/or offers to do the job > > I would seriously suggest that you consider installing Postfix. It is > in the ports tree, is well maintained and works out of the box. The > Postfix forum will be glad to give you any advice you need for setting > up and securing your mail server. Qmail is no longer supported by its > author and can be a nightmare to maintain. > We had also tried sendmail and couldn't get that working either so I suspect it is a general config issue not a MTA one. (I have set sendmail up about 30 times in the past so I know a little bit about it)
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