Re: Recommended Mail Transfer Agent

2005-01-06 Thread Jay Moore
On Sunday 02 January 2005 02:59 pm, Sergei Gnezdov wrote: Configuration is pretty easy with the m4 macros, and sendmail still amounts to something of a de-facto standard. I am not saying senmail is bad. In fact, I have no plans to get rid of it. I just want to know where to find the

Re: Recommended Mail Transfer Agent

2005-01-04 Thread Matthew Seaman
Michael Madden wrote: The FreeBSD Handbook seems incomplete and glosses over details: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mail.html That's because to do sendmail configuration justice, you'ld end up writing something like O'Reilly's Bat Book, and as Costales Allman already

Re: Recommended Mail Transfer Agent

2005-01-03 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
Michael Madden [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm looking to setup a mail server with FreeBSD 5.3 for a group of around 100 users, and I was wondering which MTA I should use. I have noticed sendmail is the default MTA, but I have no sendmail experience. Also I know historically sendmail has

Re: Recommended Mail Transfer Agent

2005-01-03 Thread MikeM
On 1/2/2005 at 2:36 PM Adam Fabian wrote: |On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 02:20:51PM -0600, Michael Madden wrote: | have noticed sendmail is the default MTA, but I have no sendmail | experience. Also I know historically sendmail has had some serious | security issues. | |sendmail is also bundled with

Recommended Mail Transfer Agent

2005-01-02 Thread Michael Madden
I'm looking to setup a mail server with FreeBSD 5.3 for a group of around 100 users, and I was wondering which MTA I should use. I have noticed sendmail is the default MTA, but I have no sendmail experience. Also I know historically sendmail has had some serious security issues. Furthermore,

Re: Recommended Mail Transfer Agent

2005-01-02 Thread Bill Moran
Michael Madden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking to setup a mail server with FreeBSD 5.3 for a group of around 100 users, and I was wondering which MTA I should use. I have noticed sendmail is the default MTA, but I have no sendmail experience. Also I know historically sendmail has had

Re: Recommended Mail Transfer Agent

2005-01-02 Thread Adam Fabian
On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 02:20:51PM -0600, Michael Madden wrote: have noticed sendmail is the default MTA, but I have no sendmail experience. Also I know historically sendmail has had some serious security issues. sendmail is also bundled with OpenBSD, which is proactively rabid about

Re: Recommended Mail Transfer Agent

2005-01-02 Thread Matthias Buelow
Bill Moran wrote: I've been using Dovecot for quite some time now. It's not even a 1.0 product yet, and I still find it excellent for both POP and IMAP. It includes support for both POP3S and IMAPS, which I find very important in this day and age. I've had bad experience so far with dovecot,

Re: Recommended Mail Transfer Agent

2005-01-02 Thread Gary
Hi Matthias, --On Sunday, January 02, 2005 9:41 PM +0100 Matthias Buelow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in part: Unless the OP has the time and resources to experiment, I'd suggest leaving that software alone for a while still until it has been stabilized, and go for proven alternatives like Cyrus or

Re: Recommended Mail Transfer Agent

2005-01-02 Thread Sergei Gnezdov
On Sun, 2005-01-02 at 14:36 -0600, Adam Fabian wrote: Configuration is pretty easy with the m4 macros, and sendmail still amounts to something of a de-facto standard. I am not saying senmail is bad. In fact, I have no plans to get rid of it. I just want to know where to find the information

Re: Recommended Mail Transfer Agent

2005-01-02 Thread Nico Meijer
Hi Bill, I use Postfix, and I recommend it to most, as it does a nice job of being secure, yet easy to configure. Nicely put. It's been my favorite MTA aswell for a number of years now. I liked your presentation on antispam measures using postfix, which shows its flexibility. Heck, I'll link

Re: Recommended Mail Transfer Agent

2005-01-02 Thread Tabor Kelly
Michael Madden wrote: I'm looking to setup a mail server with FreeBSD 5.3 for a group of around 100 users, and I was wondering which MTA I should use. I have noticed sendmail is the default MTA, but I have no sendmail experience. Also I know historically sendmail has had some serious security

Re: Recommended Mail Transfer Agent

2005-01-02 Thread Anish Mistry
On Sunday 02 January 2005 03:59 pm, Sergei Gnezdov wrote: On Sun, 2005-01-02 at 14:36 -0600, Adam Fabian wrote: Configuration is pretty easy with the m4 macros, and sendmail still amounts to something of a de-facto standard. I am not saying senmail is bad. In fact, I have no plans to get

Re: Recommended Mail Transfer Agent

2005-01-02 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 2 Jan 2005, Michael Madden wrote: I'm looking to setup a mail server with FreeBSD 5.3 for a group of around 100 users, and I was wondering which MTA I should use. I have noticed sendmail is the default MTA, but I have no sendmail experience. Also I know historically sendmail has had some

Re: Recommended Mail Transfer Agent

2005-01-02 Thread Michael Madden
Where do I go to learn about sendmail configuration? Pick up the O'Reilly Bat Book Sendmail book. The sendmail.org site is also a very good resource as well as IRC on freenode. Any HOWTO do something standard instructions? Where do I send newbie questions to? Does anyone know of a good

Re: Recommended Mail Transfer Agent

2005-01-02 Thread Michael Madden
Warren Block wrote: So have other MTAs, including one for Postfix not so long ago. Sendmail configuration can be charitably called odd, but it's so widely used that answers can usually be found on google or groups.google.com. Then there's comp.mail.sendmail, and sendmail.org, the bat book,