From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 15 03:09:27 2009 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 50CCA1065674 for ; Thu, 15 Jan 2009 03:09:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jeffrey@goldmark.org) Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com (out1.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.25]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F7298FC1F for ; Thu, 15 Jan 2009 03:09:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jeffrey@goldmark.org) Received: from compute1.internal (compute1.internal [10.202.2.41]) by out1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 633712115B0 for ; Wed, 14 Jan 2009 22:09:26 -0500 (EST) Received: from heartbeat1.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.160]) by compute1.internal (MEProxy); Wed, 14 Jan 2009 22:09:26 -0500 X-Sasl-enc: CWlQdXsa8E7CuPsC3VbcUwsZZMR4yjfKHuT/hgz5+KJ5 1231988966 Received: from hagrid.ewd.goldmark.org (n114.ewd.goldmark.org [72.64.118.114]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id F25B72B924 for ; Wed, 14 Jan 2009 22:09:25 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: From: Jeffrey Goldberg To: "mail.list freebsd-questions" In-Reply-To: <2C672D07-3AC3-4BC9-8E91-782B967BF99F@mac.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v930.3) Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 21:09:24 -0600 References: <200901131429.07667.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> <2C672D07-3AC3-4BC9-8E91-782B967BF99F@mac.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.930.3) Subject: Re: receiving mail 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, 15 Jan 2009 03:09:28 -0000 On Jan 14, 2009, at 1:02 PM, Chuck Swiger wrote: > On Jan 13, 2009, at 11:51 PM, Pieter Donche wrote: > >> What's wrong? Why does this not work out of the box ?? > > Given the security history of sendmail, it's not prudent to enable > sendmail by default. It's not just that, but people who don't understand how mail transport works, shouldn't be running mail servers. > I expect to deal with sendmail for as long as I administer Unix > boxes, but alternatives like Postfix in particular would be my > preference from a number of standpoints. I'm in the same position. I starting running alternatives to sendmail in the late 90s on systems that I knew I was always going to maintain, but for systems that would be passed to others to maintain, I stuck with installing sendmail because there was much more expertise. Now a- days, I'm happy to set up Postfix on such systems (but will still use exim for myself). Cheers, -j