Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 22:59:11 +0300 From: "Odhiambo Washington" <odhiambo@gmail.com> To: "Jerry McAllister" <jerrymc@msu.edu> Cc: Patrick Baldwin <Patrick.Baldwin@studsvik.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Need to build a new mail server Message-ID: <991123400805291259r32ba49b2xd18babc232e6bb6b@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20080529195221.GA38690@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> References: <483EE95F.8000509@studsvik.com> <20080529195221.GA38690@gizmo.acns.msu.edu>
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On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 10:52 PM, Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> wrote: > On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 01:35:27PM -0400, Patrick Baldwin wrote: > > > Hi all, I've got an older Solaris system running Sendmail for my > > mail server right now. It's about time to replace it, and I'm > > thinking FreeBSD might be the best choice of OS for the replacement. > > Given that, a FreeBSD system could be almost a drop-in replacement. > Sendmail should be the same or very nearly so (depends on the version > you are using now and the nre version). Aliases should work just > the same. Your only differences might be in where some things > live. But, check out the hier(7) man page in FreeBSD. It > documents the FreeBSD directory conventions. > > There are other MTAs and other utilities available to experiment with. > But, if you are comfortable with sendmail, there is no reason to change. > It is mature and very functional; does what you need. A modern > machine with FreeBSD 7.x should handle large numbers of Email users - > even heavy users. > > ////jerry > The only perfect answer! We should all clap for you for giving this answer. -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "Oh My God! They killed init! You Bastards!" --from a /. post
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