From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 22 23:49: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06DA137B405 for ; Mon, 22 Oct 2001 23:49:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 6FAF86AB15; Tue, 23 Oct 2001 16:18:57 +0930 (CST) Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 16:18:57 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Scott Gerhardt Cc: FreeBSD Subject: Re: Recommended MTA Message-ID: <20011023161857.L27668@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from scott@gerhardt-it.com on Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 12:47:34AM -0600 Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday, 23 October 2001 at 0:47:34 -0600, Scott Gerhardt wrote: > Ok, FreeBSD 4.4 includes Sendmail by default. > > I will be setting up a mail host and I am looking for recommendations on a > good MTA. Should I stick with Sendmail or go with one of the others? > > I know Sendmail, Postfix and Qmail are all good choices, but which one > should I invest my time and braincells into? I have to learn one, which one > should it be? It's a personal choice to a large extent. sendmail has the deserved reputation of being a pig to configure. If you don't know it already, you probably don't want to learn it. The FreeBSD project uses Postfix. So do I, and so do a lot of other people. If you use that, you'll at least have a good number of people to answer questions. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message