From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Nov 14 12:18:20 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from relax.dreamfire.net (relax.dreamfire.net [207.113.154.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32EAF14CF9 for ; Sun, 14 Nov 1999 12:18:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sean@dreamfire.net) Received: from dreamfire.net (indigo.dreamfire.net [192.168.10.8]) by relax.dreamfire.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3218332 for ; Sun, 14 Nov 1999 12:18:15 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <382F1922.EB9F58E6@dreamfire.net> Date: Sun, 14 Nov 1999 12:18:42 -0800 From: Sean-Paul Rees Organization: The Dreamfire Solutions Group X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 5.6 sun4m) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Which mail server is the best? qmail, postfix or exim? References: <19991114141001.26938.qmail@hotmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Herbert Chang wrote: > > I want to install a mail server on FreeBSD. There are many ports of mail > server on http://www.freebsd.org/ports/mail.html. I wonder which is the > best: qmail, postfix, exim or other? Definately a religious issue... but I'll still throw my comment in the bowl. I've used and recommend qmail for small/large sites, because of its relative ease to configure and manage. Its license is a bit restrictive however, from what I've heard. I currently use Postfix, and I love it. I didn't need to add 5 different users and groups, just one. It also was fairly easy to setup, and didn't require a third party program listen for it. I haven't used sendmail in ages, because the last time that I did, I got myself rooted. I've heard good things about exim, but haven't taken the time to try it. Cheers, Sean To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message