From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 4 16:10:22 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 4BB6F16A4CE for ; Mon, 4 Apr 2005 16:10:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: from epz01.nefonline.de (epz01.nefonline.de [212.204.66.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 696D943D3F for ; Mon, 4 Apr 2005 16:10:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jochen.keil@gmail.com) Received: from sillium.dyndns.org (DSL01.212.114.230.13.NEFkom.net [212.114.230.13]) by epz01.nefonline.de (NEFkom Mailservice) with SMTP id j34GAJX00446 for ; Mon, 4 Apr 2005 18:10:19 +0200 Received: (qmail 13489 invoked from network); 4 Apr 2005 16:10:19 -0000 Received: from semeon.lokal.lan (HELO ?192.168.1.7?) (192.168.1.7) by columbus.lokal.lan with SMTP; 4 Apr 2005 16:10:19 -0000 Message-ID: <425166EB.4090700@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2005 18:10:19 +0200 From: Jochen Keil User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kiffin Gish References: <000001c53763$b1a9ea80$9900000a@ZGISH> In-Reply-To: <000001c53763$b1a9ea80$9900000a@ZGISH> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Which mail server is the best for me? 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, 04 Apr 2005 16:10:22 -0000 Kiffin Gish wrote: > I would like to setup a mail server but am a little confused about whether > to use sendmail, qmail, postfix or whatever. Basically my web server is a > simple one to be used for personal use with maybe no more than a 10-20 mail > accounts. Those statements made by someone about qmail needing patches are not true. Qmail runs very good here with the same usage you described above. Someone else said that qmail breaks standards. This is true but DJB gives a good explanation for this on his homepage. Anyway i never experienced problems because of this (maybe because it just works?). Furthermore configuration isn't "a pain in the ass". It takes you some time to get the idea but then qmail will reveal you endless possibilitys to configure qmail in a very easy and effective way (one word: dotfiles). There are also a lot of examples and FAQs on http://cr.yp.to. Another point for qmail: it will run reliable with daemontools. Finally just have a look at this: $ du -sh qmail-1.03 1.4M qmail-1.03 $ du -sh /usr/src/gnu/dist/sendmail/ 12M /usr/src/gnu/dist/sendmail/ $ du -sh /usr/src/gnu/dist/postfix/ 14M /usr/src/gnu/dist/postfix/ (postfix and sendmail are from the netbsd source but i don't think this matters.) > What are the advantages and/or disadvantages of each choice, and where can I > find more information comparing them? Again i can only speak about my own experiences. I had bind running a long time until a friend convinced me to try djbdns. It was like: "What? It's that easy to run a dnscache/server?". After that i followed his recommendation straight to qmail and i don't want to miss it anymore or feel the urge to try something different also i haven't run a mail server before. So much for djb advocacy. Greetings, Jochen Keil