Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2015 22:50:12 +1100 From: Outback Dingo <outbackdingo@gmail.com> To: Manish Jain <bourne.identity@hotmail.com> Cc: User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: The mail server situation Message-ID: <CAKYr3zw=mAdZEaOy%2B7-NTfxWjvsfq56QCxju76S6vSj%2B2bXAXA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <BLU436-SMTP9788A1C9972B6DA4E3259EF6050@phx.gbl> References: <BLU436-SMTP9788A1C9972B6DA4E3259EF6050@phx.gbl>
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On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 10:34 PM, Manish Jain <bourne.identity@hotmail.com> wrote: > Hi, I have been trying to set up a mail server on a new FreeBSD 10.1 > (amd64) machine. It is turning into quite a challenge, which I am having to > persist with simply because I had set up qmail to work nicely 9 years back > for another company on 5.3 or (5.4). I suppose every administrator for > mail faces the following situation when taking up a mail server migration : > 1) email user addresses are existing and have to be served via IMAP/POP + > SMTP as in place (except elementary re-configuration on the client). The > server has a public, static IP bound to an MX record (or so I believe) 2) > access to mail via web 3) spam control via any working plugin like > spamassassin 4) optional support for ssl/tls/ipv6 (although I would > frankly like all of these locked up in their own jails) There are tons of > HowTo's out there on the web, all suffering from similar symptoms : 1) > Broken : it turns out that qmail is not even working on FreeBSD 10.1. God > knows why the port was shipped in the first place 2) Very poor > documentation. FreeBSD's famed handbook is a starting example. It begins > the mail section with the presumption that the user does not know what is > email and tries to define it in terms of traditional mail. (I wonder why > the authors even have to presume that the user is acquainted with the > concept of mail). Then it moves to sendmail configuration which begins with > the presumption that the user is already aware of terms like CONNECT, RELAY > and SKIP. As far as I am concerned, RELAY means giving a letter for my > girl-friend to a go-between I trust. SKIP means hopping in the air exactly > once when I receive a reply. (Hopping is more difficult to define, but you > can try the dictionary) Is there any mail server which : a) just works > with basic commandline skills like cd/ls/grep/sed/awk/tar/find/ > locate (and of course, the famous copy and paste) > b) the documentation for which works as it is on 10.1 amd64 without making > too many excuses You can try and discourage me with stuff like "Read > online documentation". But that only opens up the discussion to many more > naive administrators who will pound mailing lists with help questions. -- > Regards, Manish Jain --- This email is free from viruses and malware > because avast! Antivirus protection is active.http://www.avast.com > ______________________________ > > > > > You could simply use iredmail, or postfix even. http://www.iredmail.org/ > > > > > > > > <http://www.avast.com>; > > _________________freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/ > <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>; > <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> > mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>; > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe > @freebsd.org" >
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