From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 21 05:55:06 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 7D44F1065677 for ; Wed, 21 Jul 2010 05:55:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from odhiambo@gmail.com) Received: from mail-qy0-f182.google.com (mail-qy0-f182.google.com [209.85.216.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C89E8FC1D for ; Wed, 21 Jul 2010 05:55:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qyk7 with SMTP id 7so3752792qyk.13 for ; Tue, 20 Jul 2010 22:55:05 -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:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=CI9+TasuEjsjH8FZCxxRcriC4tUmjN993K15pi6ZmpU=; b=d0io6WTpiH3s9LjRgL7/2qO7kTH7Vd7r96uqaBwHXq7Q/+xsKGtz/5cuS5JoxpzntQ P2DnOkYt1ZigXe2xBcCqjctDQdE/xjM0KQdJx1ploao1r5ZCNbGLhmcwRbwZiTirAayN oQZ/YOx20BnEmKT/NqUW8eZtzICpGOx0QmIwk= 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 :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=uaGE/iy4CVsfGNMjs5GL1G+Ui0bkx8Yx8hAprGDjdPuWIXmoWf43/em+gvFWm+A8zt 84Bg4hQAEaWCKxYY4svBJBr4JbxQYpaRZktq2x6CUFI9ol/Q7lxcbivxI0wf9tUSuyby nqCOgBpRyn0oZqqWViVGco8JvrP0frX+Dwqj4= Received: by 10.224.58.101 with SMTP id f37mr6582445qah.158.1279691704275; Tue, 20 Jul 2010 22:55:04 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.229.183.211 with HTTP; Tue, 20 Jul 2010 22:54:44 -0700 (PDT) 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> <20100720165003.42ce7fc7@scorpio> From: Odhiambo Washington Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 08:54:44 +0300 Message-ID: To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 05:55:06 -0000 On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 11:50 PM, Jerry wrote: > On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 21:03:55 +0300 > Odhiambo Washington articulated: > > >> 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 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