Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 16:18:57 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Scott Gerhardt <scott@gerhardt-it.com> Cc: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Recommended MTA Message-ID: <20011023161857.L27668@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <KPEMLBLEMPMHGLJOCDEGOEMJCKAA.scott@gerhardt-it.com>; from scott@gerhardt-it.com on Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 12:47:34AM -0600 References: <KPEMLBLEMPMHGLJOCDEGOEMJCKAA.scott@gerhardt-it.com>
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On Tuesday, 23 October 2001 at 0:47:34 -0600, Scott Gerhardt wrote: > Ok, FreeBSD 4.4 includes Sendmail by default. > > I will be setting up a mail host and I am looking for recommendations on a > good MTA. Should I stick with Sendmail or go with one of the others? > > I know Sendmail, Postfix and Qmail are all good choices, but which one > should I invest my time and braincells into? I have to learn one, which one > should it be? It's a personal choice to a large extent. sendmail has the deserved reputation of being a pig to configure. If you don't know it already, you probably don't want to learn it. The FreeBSD project uses Postfix. So do I, and so do a lot of other people. If you use that, you'll at least have a good number of people to answer questions. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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