Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 08:54:44 +0300 From: Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help with setting up a mail server Message-ID: <AANLkTikAuZ7O_bWGiAGIv1hB1WMJ3Pi0z4KxVdo7oBVI@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20100720165003.42ce7fc7@scorpio> References: <20100720092644.28643f19aryeh.friedman%gmail.com@flosoft.no-ip.biz> <20100720093328.4f1bd5d0@scorpio> <20100720094609.02f88f0baryeh.friedman%gmail.com@flosoft.no-ip.biz> <AANLkTim0HBZSp2dtajpBOn8LHycClAwFrAH6OU-eLkXb@mail.gmail.com> <20100720165003.42ce7fc7@scorpio>
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On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 11:50 PM, Jerry <freebsd.user@seibercom.net> wrote: > On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 21:03:55 +0300 > Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@gmail.com> articulated: > > >> On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 4:46 PM, Aryeh M. Friedman >> <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> wrote: >> > 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 capabilitie= s >> >> > 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 settin= g >> >> 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:-) > > At least Postfix is fully RFC compliant, as opposed to Exim. > > SEE: RFC 2034 (SMTP enhanced status codes), RFC 3461-4 (delivery status > notifications), RFC 1652 (8-bit MIME including 8->7bit conversion) > among others. I doubt anyone makes a choice on an MTA (or any other software) based on it's RFC-compliance. In my experience, it's normally boils down to: 1. It has the features that I want 2. I can swim with it in times of toruble --=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
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