From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Nov 14 15:26: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 758) id 3D20914C42; Sun, 14 Nov 1999 15:26:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B77E1CD446; Sun, 14 Nov 1999 15:26:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@hub.freebsd.org) Date: Sun, 14 Nov 1999 15:26:07 -0800 (PST) From: Kris Kennaway To: Herbert Chang Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Which mail server is the best: qmail, postfix or exim? In-Reply-To: <19991114142114.44048.qmail@hotmail.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, 14 Nov 1999, Herbert Chang wrote: > I want to install a mail server on FreeBSD. There are many ports of mail > server on http://www.freebsd.org/ports/mail.html. I wonder which is the > best: qmail, postfix, exim or other? I've found qmail to be a good, robust mailserver - although there are a couple of non-obvious (to me, anyway) gotchas with interactions between configuration options. I've never used postfix, but it comes highly recommended, and is probably better suited to a high-volume server than qmail. Personally I'd never consider anything other than those two for the simple reason that the people who wrote them are security experts and designed them from scratch to be secure servers. There may never be found another vulnerability in sendmail again, but why trust that to chance? I suggest you try them both out: read through the documentation and see which seems clearest to you, and which covers the features you need most adequately, do test installs of both if you have time, and then choose based on that. Kris ---- Cthulhu for President! For when you're tired of choosing the _lesser_ of two evils.. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message