Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2000 17:21:42 +0000 (GMT) From: Paul Robinson <wigstah@akitanet.co.uk> To: Mark Conway Wirt <mark@intrepid.net> Cc: Inix ZixinG <inix@manutd.com>, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Email Server Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10002131716330.19412-100000@elwood.akitanet.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20000211131006.L7592@intrepid.net>
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On Fri, 11 Feb 2000, Mark Conway Wirt wrote: > People will swear by (and at!) > > sendmail Don't play with this one unless you want to read the O'Reilley book, or if your customers are going to be telnetting into the box... although there is loads of documentation for sendmail, it's buggy, over-complicated to configure, and less flexible than other solutions. > qmail Main advantage to qmail is the maildir format, which if you want to be able to have 2-3 mail servers and pop servers sharing the spools via NFS avoids all sorts of locking issues... > postfix Over-simplified and not mature yet. Has potential though. One program that is worthy of looking at which always gets missed is exim (www.exim.org)... it is *very* well documented, and is designed in such a way that you can configure your mail servers to do practically anything you want due to the modularisation... take note of the hints about table-driven delivery, so users don't have to have entries in /etc/passwd... system authentication only scales to about 64k users, and above 10k users, things grind to a halt... trust me... think about driving everything from mySQL or something... (and yes, I did nick the sig from slashdot, cos whoever thought of it was a genius)... :) -- Paul Robinson - Developer/Systems Administrator @ Akitanet Internet ------------------------------------------------------------------- E-m: paul@akitanet.co.uk | FreeBSD-4.0 Monopoly :- Tel: +44 (0) 161 228 6388 | Go directly to jail() ---------------------------| Do not pass /var/go http://www.akitanet.co.uk/ | Do not bind to 200.*.*.* IP addresses To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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