From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 18 10: 4:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mgw1.MEIway.com (mgw1.meiway.com [212.73.210.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5544D37B401 for ; Wed, 18 Jul 2001 10:04:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from LConrad@Go2France.com) Received: from mail.Go2France.com (ms1.meiway.com [212.73.210.73]) by mgw1.MEIway.com (Postfix Relay Hub) with ESMTP id E3EA016B1E for ; Wed, 18 Jul 2001 19:04:42 +0200 (CEST) Received: from IBM-HIRXKN66F0W.Go2France.com [195.115.185.184] by mail.Go2France.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-6.06) id A3C8855C0128; Wed, 18 Jul 2001 19:13:44 +0200 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20010718190106.02959398@mail.Go2France.com> X-Sender: LConrad@Go2France.com@mail.Go2France.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 19:05:33 +0200 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Len Conrad Subject: Re: Postfix??? In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >I have recently read a lot of comments on this list in support of Postfix as >an MTA of choice. So, should I go ahead and use Postfix yes >, or am I treading where angels fear to go? angels got no fear > (Bear in mind that my experience with sendmail is >"A LITTLE", but with Postfix it's "ZERO".) postfix is so simple youŽll probably be confused looking for complexity. >Am I correct in believing that Postfix is included in the 4CD distribution >set in Ports or Packages? grab the pub/postfix/experimental/ latest tar.gz and compile from source, never fails for me. IŽve just built two postfix send-only gateways, getting only about 30K msgs hour (10 to 20kb per msg) because the message generation machine canŽt keep the postfix gateways busy. They spool to mfs, and a 3rd gateway acts as fallback relay for troublesome messages. Len http://MenAndMice.com/DNS-training http://BIND8NT.MEIway.com : ISC BIND 8.2.4 for NT4 & W2K http://IMGate.MEIway.com : Build free, hi-perf, anti-abuse mail gateways To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message