From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 20 18:04:22 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 331261065676 for ; Tue, 20 Jul 2010 18:04:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from odhiambo@gmail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f54.google.com (mail-fx0-f54.google.com [209.85.161.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B86C28FC08 for ; Tue, 20 Jul 2010 18:04:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm13 with SMTP id 13so3356959fxm.13 for ; Tue, 20 Jul 2010 11:04:20 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:mime-version:received:in-reply-to :references:from:date:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=8XFtLmhNroFmW25AA8VCBPdOP8Q/AWz1okuE4d4if8M=; b=w8HZh641doAcrWf1UEwWfQcaTlEtZgv7QyL9BLp4HatkEmL8w4an5FXGycxUsZh/+A qVeGly8kgDYSwoQKRrz+CytL3ytgr5ubfd3/NVyTKvWGvctRP23aS3Poab46spP0GcFq PONlFXoQzfSeT3YLLR5zgCCNPnttOmXrpunoI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=EIXRty34yGqllE/yv0/6pBVVHsUjY8wozUmtHDqK39oiYr5PsoxRP0VOjTNQuX39Rr qlQOR6IZyfd+uBxHfsGgu8E9IFPPDeZvN2TKrCpJJbIG7Ws+sq/h0GjZWQNNwJA7TWHi caUnbIGWqRrlZjYtzgtU24GBVzx/7qpgizzQE= Received: by 10.223.109.2 with SMTP id h2mr4508382fap.95.1279649055356; Tue, 20 Jul 2010 11:04:15 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.229.183.211 with HTTP; Tue, 20 Jul 2010 11:03:55 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20100720094609.02f88f0baryeh.friedman%gmail.com@flosoft.no-ip.biz> References: <20100720092644.28643f19aryeh.friedman%gmail.com@flosoft.no-ip.biz> <20100720093328.4f1bd5d0@scorpio> <20100720094609.02f88f0baryeh.friedman%gmail.com@flosoft.no-ip.biz> From: Odhiambo Washington Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 21:03:55 +0300 Message-ID: To: "Aryeh M. Friedman" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help with setting up a mail server X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 18:04:22 -0000 On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 4:46 PM, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: > On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 09:33:28 -0400 > Jerry wrote: > >> On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 09:26:44 -0400 >> Aryeh M. Friedman 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. =C2=A0(I have set > sendmail up about 30 times in the past so I know a little bit about it) Exim is a very good choice. Forget the Postfix suggestions. It's Sendmail's brother:-) --=20 Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "If you have nothing good to say about someone, just shut up!." =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0=C2=A0 -- Lucky Dube