From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 23 0:52:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-10.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4B4C37B401; Tue, 23 Oct 2001 00:52:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [195.11.243.26] (helo=Debug) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with smtp (Exim 3.22 #1) id 15vwMI-00055S-00; Tue, 23 Oct 2001 07:52:22 +0000 To: Greg Lehey , Scott Gerhardt , FreeBSD From: Cliff Sarginson Subject: Re: Recommended MTA Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 07:52:22 GMT X-Mailer: www.webmail.nl.demon.net X-Sender: postmaster@btvs.demon.nl X-Originating-IP: 192.250.25.251 Message-Id: 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. > And there is a very active mailing list for Postfix, questions usually get a response within hours (even minutes). It is designed from the beginning as a highly secure and easy to configure system, and even has a "sendmail" command that understands a lot of the sendmail commands so software that assumes sendmail as the MTA will still happily function. Sendmail, as has been pointed out, maybe a better career move at the moment, but if that is not part of the consideration then forget it. Life is too short for an MTA whose definitive reference book is 1100+ pages long. Sendmail is to MTA's what APL is to programming languages .. :) -- Regards Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message