Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 11:41:45 +0200 From: "James Wilde" <james.wilde@telia.com> To: "Adam Fladwood" <adam@wiredrave.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Sendmail -or- Qmail? Message-ID: <002201c03d9e$9f6fb840$8208a8c0@iqunlimited.net> In-Reply-To: <NEBBLMHKKLGHANKONFLMKEAECIAA.adam@wiredrave.com>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Adam Fladwood > Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2000 00:36 > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Sendmail -or- Qmail? > > > I've been trying to figure out what I should do... I'm the systems admin > for an ISP that has a prettt steady flow of Mail. However > sendmail seems to > be to much for me to handle as far as setting up certain rules > and stuff. I > mean I have the sendmail book, but hell, that doesn't help a whole lot w/ > the rules - I don't have time to sit and read it. Another alternative which I adopted since TPTB wanted sendmail on our mail servers was to install sendmail with all relaying options wide open and then run the output through smtpd from Obtuse http://www.obtuse.com who are famous for the Juniper firewall. We have a complex WAN involving about 50 offices whose Internet IP addresses are dynamically configured by our ISP. I spent a month - not dedicated - trying to make sense of the sendmail rules without success. One consultant's suggestion was to use the ISP for outgoing mail and leave the relaying problem up to him which was unsatisfactory for several reasons. I decided to add smtpd to the system and had a functioning set of rules in half a day, tested and working. Smtpd's sole function is to handle anti-relaying and anti-spamming and it does it very well. mvh/regards James To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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