From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 21 14:41:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4DA9137B409 for ; Thu, 21 Jun 2001 14:41:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 47176 invoked by uid 100); 21 Jun 2001 21:41:39 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15154.27155.210329.267288@guru.mired.org> Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 16:41:39 -0500 To: "Patrick O'Reilly" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Postfix??? In-Reply-To: <22764117@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Patrick O'Reilly types: > Hi all! > > I'm about to configure a small mail server for a customer on FreeBSD. I've > used the standard sendmail in the past with no problems. However, the > sendmail.cf file is a scary beast. > > I have recently read a lot of comments on this list in support of Postfix as > an MTA of choice. So, should I go ahead and use Postfix, or am I treading > where angels fear to go? (Bear in mind that my experience with sendmail is > "A LITTLE", but with Postfix it's "ZERO".) Backwards compatability with sendmail was a postfix goal, so things like alias files and mail lists and so on keep working without change. This isn't true with qmail, for instance. That makes postfix an easier step than qmail. I don't know about exim. > Any comments / advice would be much appreciated. If you're going to *replace* a mail server, you might want to spend the time to set one up a postfix server on a machine that doesn't normally do mail so you're familiar with the process before you start. If you can do that where the client aren't watching over your shoulder, you might want to do it even if you're building a new server. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message