From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 15 11:50:15 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 37211822 for ; Sun, 15 Mar 2015 11:50:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-la0-x229.google.com (mail-la0-x229.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:4010:c03::229]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 998A4692 for ; Sun, 15 Mar 2015 11:50:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: by lagg8 with SMTP id g8so19691268lag.1 for ; Sun, 15 Mar 2015 04:50:12 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=K99FWWE+rvEq7PfjSbrDgXUNWwN7HY1pOY3rMykCZVU=; b=0LtWwgIx/u5SBYqnLdPP9ZK+2AyxwGyCRKiCHDd3LEa57Ayuacj/GBkz32CeEMK4xt Z4UswbLOkk2V/fdu1v6Srlvmv3aotvKdtEBQoHkIfNJ2QupJNrnbu2ZKj4J2wwcZHI4m pPq9Cu71R8gQbzSOBiJ3TuzsfvvqxUSboF+oAn4ilCX7LVtNPEyTPJ5UxwEEdpkPyRC4 fkyR+dyx0d6XZSscZNIpuuMAlnK7vXXMTMN4fWuOxT6Z5o8EKI7NUJ6qbkHdOnQh4W72 tYZKeRr/Y60Fq9zcy9Uwt7GWLSV4etWxjSPGe4oOLd33FTdwGA2qXdjkgaB5uRGz5Zcc Ts6A== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.112.41.236 with SMTP id i12mr22305803lbl.14.1426420212702; Sun, 15 Mar 2015 04:50:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.152.6.170 with HTTP; Sun, 15 Mar 2015 04:50:12 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2015 22:50:12 +1100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: The mail server situation From: Outback Dingo To: Manish Jain Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.18-1 Cc: User Questions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2015 11:50:15 -0000 On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 10:34 PM, Manish Jain 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/ > > > > > > > > > > _________________freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/ > > > mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe > @freebsd.org" >