From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 27 16:05:24 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E367E16A488 for ; Wed, 27 Jun 2007 16:05:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dick@nagual.nl) Received: from nagual.nl (cc20684-a.assen1.dr.home.nl [82.74.10.158]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DA0C13C4C7 for ; Wed, 27 Jun 2007 16:05:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dick@nagual.nl) Received: from westmark.nagual.nl (westmark.nagual.nl [192.168.11.22]) by nagual.nl (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8/yanta) with ESMTP id l5RG7vkD018608; Wed, 27 Jun 2007 18:07:57 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from dick@localhost) by westmark.nagual.nl (8.14.1+Sun/8.14.1/Submit) id l5RG5FnA001448; Wed, 27 Jun 2007 18:05:15 +0200 (CEST) X-Authentication-Warning: westmark.nagual.nl: dick set sender to dick@nagual.nl using -f To: Barnaby Scott References: <46822D9C.3010400@waywood.co.uk> <20070627153042.GB71331@slackbox.xs4all.nl> From: Dick Hoogendijk Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 18:05:15 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20070627153042.GB71331@slackbox.xs4all.nl> (Roland Smith's message of "Wed\, 27 Jun 2007 17\:30\:42 +0200") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (usg-unix-v) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.58 on 192.168.11.35 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Gradual move to own mail server - strategy for noob 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: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 16:05:25 -0000 Roland Smith writes: > On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 10:27:56AM +0100, Barnaby Scott wrote: >> What I _think_ I want to do is this: Install Fetchmail to get mail >> from my various hosted mailboxes > >> Configure Sendmail, which I accepted as the default mailer > > I'd go for postfix. It's much easier to configure. That's your POV. I've run sendmail, postfix and courier for quite some time and lately I've returned to sendmail. I just like it. Working with mc files is a breeze. You don't hack a cf file unless you're a hacker. But _IF_ you are, hacking is easy too. >> I've heard it said that it's easier and less painfull to amputate > your own leg with a pocket knife then to hack sendmail.cf. :) Depends on your hacking skills.. Writing / adjusting a mc file is easier. -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ http://nagual.nl/ + Solaris 11 05/07 ++