From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 3 08:17:23 2005 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 7F83C16A4CE for ; Mon, 3 Jan 2005 08:17:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: from vs3.bgnett.no (vs3.bgnett.no [194.54.96.185]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9AA643D1D for ; Mon, 3 Jan 2005 08:17:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from peter@bgnett.no) Received: from amidala.datadok.no.bgnett.no (amidala.datadok.no [194.54.103.98]) by vs3.bgnett.no (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id j038HF5n089042 for ; Mon, 3 Jan 2005 09:17:17 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from peter@bgnett.no) Sender: peter@amidala.datadok.no To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20050102202051.GA7603@cmsrtp.com> From: peter@bgnett.no (Peter N. M. Hansteen) Date: 03 Jan 2005 09:16:53 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20050102202051.GA7603@cmsrtp.com> Message-ID: <86sm5judu2.fsf@amidala.datadok.no> Lines: 23 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-bgnett.no-virusscanner: Found to be clean X-Envelope-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Recommended Mail Transfer Agent 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, 03 Jan 2005 08:17:23 -0000 Michael Madden writes: > I'm looking to setup a mail server with FreeBSD 5.3 for a group of around > 100 users, and I was wondering which MTA I should use. I have noticed > sendmail is the default MTA, but I have no sendmail experience. Also I know > historically sendmail has had some serious security issues. Since nobody else so far has mentioned exim - that's what I use on my mail servers (FreeBSD and OpenBSD). On FreeBSD and elsewhere it's an easy install from ports, and it comes with a fairly human-readable configuration file which comes out of the default install fairly well commented. If you read and follow the port's onscreen directions, you'll end up with a fairly good spam+worm filtering setup for your mail as well. IME a low-maintainence, high-reliability option. > Furthermore, can someone recommend a decent POP3 and IMAP server? There are several good ones in ports. imap-uw is very easy to set up. -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/ http://www.datadok.no/ http://www.nuug.no/ "First, we kill all the spammers" The Usenet Bard, "Twice-forwarded tales"