From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 7 18:34:26 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5828116A405 for ; Sat, 7 Apr 2007 18:34:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from eric@mikestammer.com) Received: from smtp112.sbc.mail.re2.yahoo.com (smtp112.sbc.mail.re2.yahoo.com [68.142.229.93]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 079AB13C4BA for ; Sat, 7 Apr 2007 18:34:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from eric@mikestammer.com) Received: (qmail 24971 invoked from network); 7 Apr 2007 18:34:25 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.mikestammer.com) (mikestammer@sbcglobal.net@70.131.134.49 with login) by smtp112.sbc.mail.re2.yahoo.com with SMTP; 7 Apr 2007 18:34:25 -0000 X-YMail-OSG: vgH9KDkVM1kAznlSZYs6Fo1r4w9JfwEtY0rNWZZKhK5d3bD37fOUOGs_oHOb4uPzoORdCqj_ybn9W43WMzass3L0Z0YgQWVBfpaLRmZzxBIetDrI_QA- Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.mikestammer.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C72E0B877; Sat, 7 Apr 2007 13:34:24 -0500 (CDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at mikestammer.com Received: from mail.mikestammer.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (gondolin.middleearth.mikestammer.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id aUvB9YJtm8lk; Sat, 7 Apr 2007 13:34:03 -0500 (CDT) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (unknown [192.168.0.150]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: eric) by mail.mikestammer.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 587BFB86F; Sat, 7 Apr 2007 13:34:02 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <4617E45F.3080601@mikestammer.com> Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2007 13:35:11 -0500 From: Eric User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0b2 (Windows/20070116) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jay Gordon References: <000001c77893$a8cb7460$650fa8c0@MRKIDDLES> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Brian Hartley , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mail server blues 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: Sat, 07 Apr 2007 18:34:26 -0000 Jay Gordon wrote: > go with qmail... it "rocks" > > http://www.qmailrocks.org/ > > it's a damn good mta. > qmail is horrible and outdated. heres a ton of reasons not to use it: http://www-dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de/~ma/qmail-bugs.html Sure qmail is nice if you want 3000 bounce messages because qmail is too dumb of out of the box not to reject mail for invalid recipients before queuing it, but hey, if you like that kind of thing or want to spend time looking for patches to correct broken behavior, be my guest. =) go with postfix. It works out of the box and it is actively maintained plus there are a TON of good links on the postfix homepage. This link: http://www.flakshack.com/anti-spam/ will walk you through everything from start to finish for postfix and antispam stuff. Theres a ton more here: http://www.postfix.org/docs.html do yourself a favor and start with postfix. qmail could have been something, but the arrogance of its author has relegated it to the has been list, much like his other programs he's released. He should have used a real open source license and then perhaps his programs would be viable today. But thats just my opinion! =) for the imap/pop piece, go with dovecot. its simple to set up and light on resources. By the way, my site is setup using dyndns custom DNS stuff, so its very similar to yours. I use postfix + dovecot for my email needs and it works perfectly. Best of luck Eric