Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2015 19:28:47 +0530 From: Amitabh Kant <amitabhkant@gmail.com> To: Manish Jain <bourne.identity@hotmail.com> Cc: User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: The mail server situation Message-ID: <CAPTAQBJCupz5Gauf31eDX8oaDn9mHN7ACbORTYYqvb5BqDbgfQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <BLU436-SMTP9788A1C9972B6DA4E3259EF6050@phx.gbl> References: <BLU436-SMTP9788A1C9972B6DA4E3259EF6050@phx.gbl>
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On Sunday 15 March 2015, Manish Jain <bourne.identity@hotmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I have been trying to set up a mail server on a new FreeBSD 10.1 (amd64) > machine. It is turning into quite a challenge, which I am having to persist > with simply because I had set up qmail to work nicely 9 years back for > another company on 5.3 or (5.4). > > I suppose every administrator for mail faces the following situation when > taking up a mail server migration : > > 1) email user addresses are existing and have to be served via IMAP/POP + > SMTP as in place (except elementary re-configuration on the client). The > server has a public, static IP bound to an MX record (or so I believe) > 2) access to mail via web > 3) spam control via any working plugin like spamassassin > 4) optional support for ssl/tls/ipv6 (although I would frankly like all of > these locked up in their own jails) > > There are tons of HowTo's out there on the web, all suffering from similar > symptoms : > > 1) Broken : it turns out that qmail is not even working on FreeBSD 10.1. > God knows why the port was shipped in the first place > 2) Very poor documentation. FreeBSD's famed handbook is a starting > example. It begins the mail section with the presumption that the user does > not know what is email and tries to define it in terms of traditional mail. > (I wonder why the authors even have to presume that the user is acquainted > with the concept of mail). Then it moves to sendmail configuration which > begins with the presumption that the user is already aware of terms like > CONNECT, RELAY and SKIP. As far as I am concerned, RELAY means giving a > letter for my girl-friend to a go-between I trust. SKIP means hopping in > the air exactly once when I receive a reply. (Hopping is more difficult to > define, but you can try the dictionary) > > Is there any mail server which : > > a) just works with basic commandline skills like > cd/ls/grep/sed/awk/tar/find/locate (and of course, the famous copy and > paste) > b) the documentation for which works as it is on 10.1 amd64 without making > too many excuses > > You can try and discourage me with stuff like "Read online documentation". > But that only opens up the discussion to many more naive administrators who > will pound mailing lists with help questions. > > -- > Regards, > > Manish Jain > > > > _________________________ > FWIW, I had much better experience using Postfix on FreeBSD till 9.x . Haven't used it in a while, but should not be much of a problem even with 10.x . Stopped using qmail after FreeBSD 6, so not much of an idea anymore with it. Amitabh
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