From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 6 20:23:59 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD1E116A41F for ; Tue, 6 Sep 2005 20:23:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from smtpout.mac.com (smtpout.mac.com [17.250.248.85]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4251543D58 for ; Tue, 6 Sep 2005 20:23:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mac.com (smtpin01-en2 [10.13.10.146]) by smtpout.mac.com (Xserve/8.12.11/smtpout03/MantshX 4.0) with ESMTP id j86KNwdT008587; Tue, 6 Sep 2005 13:23:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.1.1.209] (nfw2.codefab.com [199.103.21.225] (may be forged)) (authenticated bits=0) by mac.com (Xserve/smtpin01/MantshX 4.0) with ESMTP id j86KNu3k020848; Tue, 6 Sep 2005 13:23:58 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <200509061204.57264.akbeech@gmail.com> References: <20050906101228.78411.qmail@web30306.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <200509061204.57264.akbeech@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v734) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <8E9DB4E1-4516-4D0D-89CB-BEFD20E4AFDA@mac.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Charles Swiger Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2005 16:23:51 -0400 To: Yance Kowara X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.734) Cc: freeBSD Subject: Re: FreeBSD howto collection 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: Tue, 06 Sep 2005 20:23:59 -0000 yance_kowara@yahoo.com wrote: > I have those books. I was hoping there is a FreeBSD > book that includes the installation of other mail/dns > servers like DJBDNS/qmail/postfix etc. None of the software you mention here is platform-specific to FreeBSD (or Linux, or to any particular OS). Go to DJB's site, or "life with qmail", or www.postfix.org, and read away. However, you could also start with: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mail- using.html http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports.html ...then "cd /usr/ports/mail/postfix" (or /usr/ports/mail/qmail) and "make install". > I am wondering why we get a lot more varieties on > Linux solutions compared to FreeBSD. Are there more > Linux gurus than FreeBSD gurus out there or are people > just not interested in writing anymore? There is nothing wrong with people trying and experimenting with lots of different approaches, but consistency has its own value. -- -Chuck