From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 8 14:44:15 2004 Return-Path: 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 9A45916A4CF for ; Mon, 8 Mar 2004 14:44:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from destiny.chrononomicon.com (mail.chrononomicon.com [65.193.73.208]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24EFD43D53 for ; Mon, 8 Mar 2004 14:44:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bsilver@chrononomicon.com) Received: from [IPv6:::1] (destiny.chrononomicon.com [192.168.1.42]) by destiny.chrononomicon.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E230A1FDFF for ; Mon, 8 Mar 2004 17:43:46 -0500 (EST) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v612) In-Reply-To: <0A417B49F5CACA4185B7E606F349CC850CED15@sc1621.bcrail.com> References: <0A417B49F5CACA4185B7E606F349CC850CED15@sc1621.bcrail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <157AAB12-7152-11D8-A770-000A956D2452@chrononomicon.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Bart Silverstrim Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 17:43:56 -0500 To: FreeBSD Questions Mailing List X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.612) Subject: Re: E-Mail Gateway X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2004 22:44:15 -0000 On Mar 8, 2004, at 12:33 PM, Wright, Greg wrote: > Bart, thanks for the reply !! > > I had been looking at qmail with clam and spamassassin, but somebody > told me that qmail might not be appropriate as a secure mail gateway. > It was not designed to route mail, but instead to act as just a mail > server for local mailboxes. > > I'll take another look at postfix. > > Thanks again. > As a side note: I'm not trying to start an MTA war :-) I've used Qmail a long time ago; it's fast, it's very secure, and I liked it. I chose postfix for this particular case because I wasn't doing anything elaborate with the messages and I wanted something that was as "compatible" as possible...the exact configuration for the system I was setting up I couldn't find any simple HOWTOs for, and there is a lot of material for Sendmail and Postfix floating around out there and if documentation said that a particular program, like Amavis, worked with Sendmail then chances were pretty good that it would work with Postfix too since Postfix was designed to be a drop-in replacement for Sendmail. Postfix is also pretty simple to set up, in my experiences. Once I get the server here set up to production level, I'm planning on writing up how I configured it and I'm hoping to get permission to put it in out for people to use as a reference if they have a project like this one to do; I don't know if people would be interested but I know I could have used a guide like this :-) -Bart