From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 5 15:21:25 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8873F106564A for ; Sat, 5 May 2012 15:21:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jrisom@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ob0-f182.google.com (mail-ob0-f182.google.com [209.85.214.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B1228FC08 for ; Sat, 5 May 2012 15:21:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: by obcni5 with SMTP id ni5so7291175obc.13 for ; Sat, 05 May 2012 08:21:19 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=eXxBENcpQSh3AXHOw0blFQ/Og8xF5GDeRVfU5q7Ht/Y=; b=Ivx7ltOLSxlHweItv4S5fPhLTNhv4+ugmGjN6Q9QpNo7vvydPZFaQhLmkJqV/ipg1s vwpcQcIpm9Gwb2AifRkTSvJTmVmNisdv+GeX6bp0FhN59CdLC9IFfbHt5wnfthLnSqzc FxDHVc0S4YvWr+rgASjLLKqC7VzqNcMsgJvhwumRnli762yD2VLp/fAbInar7Zjd0Krx 15aiR9LaRRw/Iqsrqk3wVF2FY/vnWOeZBRaF8r7pFj6F+mABxBvXqLke5SZ1bZERa/PD Fl/ArMlualDSJxYLs5Rzky1deBDIdVMOTjOBDijxaMsHDC98OJ9JXi+6DLVksHxfubxg BTlg== Received: by 10.50.207.70 with SMTP id lu6mr5066651igc.62.1336231278801; Sat, 05 May 2012 08:21:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.3] (c-98-212-197-29.hsd1.il.comcast.net. [98.212.197.29]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id ew6sm1793310igc.6.2012.05.05.08.21.17 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 05 May 2012 08:21:17 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4FA54566.6050106@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 05 May 2012 10:21:10 -0500 From: Joshua Isom User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120428 Thunderbird/12.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Best mail setup for home server? 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: Sat, 05 May 2012 15:21:25 -0000 I currently use my FreeBSD system as my generic unix server and some coding, along with occasional multimedia. I'd installed postfix years ago and kept using it. Right now, I use getmail with cron, dspam, and dovecot to handle my gmail account. I've never set up outgoing mail which makes changing email clients, or devices, annoying. Currently postfix is set to use dovecot's deliver command so that dovecot can sort and handle it. Before I deal with setting postfix to relay the mail, dealing with firewalls and other possible issues, is there a better alternative? I'd prefer that local mail "just works" even if I lose internet, and any email that gets as far as my server will at least eventually mail. The archlinux wiki seems to suggest ssmtp doesn't work properly with attachments. Instead it recommends msmtp, which requires an active internet connection to use. Dragonfly's dma is local only to the computer and not the LAN. Are the only options configuring sendmail or configuring postfix?