From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 22 11:26:50 2010 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 1CD471065673 for ; Thu, 22 Jul 2010 11:26:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mail25@bzerk.org) Received: from ei.bzerk.org (tunnel490.ipv6.xs4all.nl [IPv6:2001:888:10:1ea::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7AD588FC1C for ; Thu, 22 Jul 2010 11:26:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ei.bzerk.org (BOFH@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ei.bzerk.org (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o6MBQidU001722; Thu, 22 Jul 2010 13:26:44 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from mail25@bzerk.org) Received: (from bulk@localhost) by ei.bzerk.org (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id o6MBQhUD001721; Thu, 22 Jul 2010 13:26:43 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from mail25@bzerk.org) Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 13:26:43 +0200 From: Ruben de Groot To: krad Message-ID: <20100722112643.GA1570@ei.bzerk.org> Mail-Followup-To: Ruben de Groot , krad , Cristiano Deana , "Aryeh M. Friedman" , FreeBSD-Questions References: <20100720092644.28643f19aryeh.friedman%gmail.com@flosoft.no-ip.biz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.5 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on ei.bzerk.org X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.0.1 (ei.bzerk.org [127.0.0.1]); Thu, 22 Jul 2010 13:26:47 +0200 (CEST) Cc: Cristiano Deana , "Aryeh M. Friedman" , FreeBSD-Questions Subject: Re: Help with setting up a mail 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: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 11:26:50 -0000 On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 07:35:48PM +0100, krad typed: > > while we are on the topic of debugging I would recomend exim as an MTA. I > manage a few large enterprise mail systems with 10M + active accounts. A lot > of them are legacy systems that we gained through acquisitions. I generally > have to support them until we can get the accounts migrated onto the main > platform. They are a mixture of exim, postfix, qmail, and sendmail, and > quite often are in a poor state when we first get our hands on them. I have > to say when you are getting mail routing issues exim is by the far the > easiest to debug mainly due to the -bt option. When you combine it with the > debug flag it produced a very detailed output on the mail routing. I have > never found such a feature in all the other MTA's above. Actually, the -bt option comes from sendmail originally ;)