From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 23 14:04:05 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 CFB0E16A4CE for ; Mon, 23 Feb 2004 14:04:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from relay.pair.com (relay.pair.com [209.68.1.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6CF4243D2D for ; Mon, 23 Feb 2004 14:04:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd@stevenfettig.com) Received: (qmail 4251 invoked from network); 23 Feb 2004 22:04:04 -0000 Received: from c68.115.22.188.jvl.wi.charter.com (HELO stevenfettig.com) (68.115.22.188) by relay.pair.com with SMTP; 23 Feb 2004 22:04:04 -0000 X-pair-Authenticated: 68.115.22.188 Message-ID: <403A78CB.7080302@stevenfettig.com> Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 16:03:55 -0600 From: "Steven N. Fettig" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20040213 Thunderbird/0.4 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gareth Bailey References: <00f001c3fa47$7b174350$6898fea9@BAILEY> In-Reply-To: <00f001c3fa47$7b174350$6898fea9@BAILEY> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: FreeBSD - questions Subject: Re: Preferred MTA and mail configuration 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, 23 Feb 2004 22:04:05 -0000 Gareth Bailey wrote: >I'm new to email on FreeBSD. Could someone please advise at what MTA i should use. I thought courier might be a good choice since it has integrated POP3 and IMAP servers (bearing in mind i have to serve Outlook clients). I want simple install. > >Thank you >Gareth >_______________________________________________ >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" > > I know a lot of people like Postfix, but I have been using a qmail/vpopmail/courier-imap combination for almost three years now. I translated a German howto into English some time ago. I have never used Postfix, so I cannot comment on its ease of setup or use, but I think once you understand the basics of an MTA and the subsequent POP or IMAP services, qmail is one of the most stable options out there. If interested, you can take a peek: http://stevenfettig.com/mythoughts/archives/000090.php The original HOWTO is at: http://pofo.de/HOWTO/qmail/ I can say that I have never been hacked and/or had any problems with the SMTP, POP or IMAP services locking up - ever... If you are not supporting multiple domains, then the vpopmail option may not be necessary - it is, however, an easy way to manage one or multiple domains with qmail as the MTA. Steve Fettig