Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 20:05:16 +0100 From: Mark Drayton <mark.drayton@4thwave.co.uk> To: FreeBSD questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Any mail server software that could run on FreeBSD? Message-ID: <20010427200516.A765@tethys.valhalla.net> In-Reply-To: <000b01c0cef6$3b4afa20$0100a8c0@co3018900a>; from educatee2001@yahoo.com on Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 06:44:09PM %2B1000 References: <000b01c0cef6$3b4afa20$0100a8c0@co3018900a>
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Educatee (educatee2001@yahoo.com) wrote: > I would like to find out what are some of the mail server software > that could run on FreeBSD and is quite reliable. Thank you. My personal preference is Postfix. The author (Wieste Venema) is a strong believer in 'the principle of least surprise' so Postfix requires very little configuration out of the box. The configuation syntax is very easy to understand (something which certainly can't be said for sendmail) and well documented. The postfix-users mailing list is an invaluable resource and Wieste himself is very active on it. Postfix is in the ports tree and will easily install to replace sendmail. I can't recommend it enough. Sendmail, OTOH, is renowned for it's incredibly terse configurations syntax which is intimidating and hard to learn. Sendmail is undoubtedly very flexible and powerful but it takes a lot of brainache to configure. Obviously sendmail has an advantage here by being installed by default under FreeBSD. Unless you want something non-standard you might be better off sticking with sendmail. However if you're new to MTAs and you need an exotic configuration I don't recommend sendmail. My two cents. FWIW, the FreeBSD mailing list server runs Postfix... Cheers, -- Mark Drayton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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