Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: > Hello, > > On 4 Aug 2006 at 15:43, W B Hacker wrote: > > >>Do not try to run a 'public facing' MTA unless you have a fixed IP address >>with >>'PTR' and 'MX' records as well as an 'A' record. Your ISP Terms and >>Conditions >>must also permit running a mail server. Many do not. >> >>Show evidence of understanding and responsibility and you will find lots of >>help >>here. > > > Ouch that hurt :) but I take your point. Just to give you a little > background. It is not that I > know nothing about mail servers, DNS, relaying, etc. I have been running mail > server under > windows for a long time and it currently handles about about 17K messages per > day.
Fine as far as it goes. Win-tools may not integrate securely, but they do integrate. Mixing *n*x tools with WinWoes is another matter entirely. I have toured Poland in a RHD car built for English highways, but cannot recommend it, especially since traffic in both directions follows the best pavement, not any particular side of the road. ;-) - hybrids will be missing an entire layer of 'native' networking and security tools. - your learning-curve for the hybrid will be *way* longer than either toolset taken alone. > > I am thinking of changing it to use exim under FreeBSD but I wanted to test > and see. Until > now I haven't head a separate box to test and I would hate to mess with the > production > server. Now that I have one I wanted to look at things using cygwin with the > plan of moving > later the whole mailing system under some flavor of linux. I am willing to > learn. I am just > trying to create a test system and see how it operates, what challenges lay > ahead, etc. FYI - > even for the test box I have all things cofigured correctly with revdns, etc. > 'Flavor' of Linux takes in a whole 'nuther universe. It will be so easy to just go ahead and set up the FreeBSD+Exim box you will probably go away grumbing at the time already wasted on cygin & friends. Our servers run FreeBSD 4.X on single-CPU units, FreeBSD 6.1X on dual-core, Exim, Dovecot, (recommended as a good fit), plus MaraDNS, and PostgreSQL (not necessarily what you will want) - all from the ports tree and/or the tarball when the ports are a rev or so behind. > If you think you can still help me, please do. I do not want to try first by > installing FreeBSD > because there will be many more challenges to face even before implementing a > mail server. > This test setup is purely for the purpose of watching the system under > vairous load and > seeing what else I need to think of. You can take for granted that any decent Linux distro, or any *BSD will handle several times the load a WinBox can handle on the same hardware, *expecially* if you leave GUI and multimedia off the box (always hard to do with WinWoes, generally troublesome with Linux, but 'standard' with *BSD). That's a road *very* well traveled, and well worth the modest investment in learning how to do it well. For any *BSD, and most Linux other-than-Debian-with-CPanel, all the advice and archives found here are prety much directly useful. Debian+Cpanel marches to a unique drumbeat, and has its own Exim list HTH, Bill Hacker -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
