From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 13 01:10:34 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FD8316A4CE for ; Wed, 13 Apr 2005 01:10:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.nativenerds.com (host-70-0-111-24.midco.net [24.111.0.70]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71BDD43D45 for ; Wed, 13 Apr 2005 01:10:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from estover@nativenerds.com) Received: from red (host-14-37-230-24.midco.net [24.230.37.14]) j3D1NoXA030522; Tue, 12 Apr 2005 19:23:50 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from estover@nativenerds.com) From: Ed Stover To: Kiffin Gish In-Reply-To: <000001c53763$b1a9ea80$9900000a@ZGISH> References: <000001c53763$b1a9ea80$9900000a@ZGISH> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Native Nerds Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 19:11:19 -0600 Message-Id: <1113354679.88379.18.camel@red.nativenerds.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.3 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.63 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on mail.nativenerds.com cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Which mail server is the best for me? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: estover@nativenerds.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 01:10:34 -0000 On Sat, 2005-04-02 at 11:09 +0200, Kiffin Gish wrote: > I would like to setup a mail server but am a little confused about whether > to use sendmail, qmail, postfix or whatever. Basically my web server is a > simple one to be used for personal use with maybe no more than a 10-20 mail > accounts. > > What are the advantages and/or disadvantages of each choice, and where can I > find more information comparing them? > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" For my home stuff and a couple of production servers I use Sendmail +imap-uw (imap, pop)+squirrelmail+popassd+clamav_milter+spamassasin. I is very simple and fast to setup, plus easy to trouble shoot. If the MX is pointing at the address already it might take me about 20 minutes to make it start accepting and sending mail. One of these days I want to release a small tutorial on how to do this.