Re: mail server

2012-06-12 Thread Boris Samorodov
11.06.2012 16:33, Bahaa Babekir пишет: I want to sent me configuration to build mail server step by step I'd suggest to begin with: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mail.html -- WBR, Boris Samorodov (bsam) FreeBSD Committer, http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve

Re: mail server

2012-06-12 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 12:55:08AM +0400, Boris Samorodov wrote: 11.06.2012 16:33, Bahaa Babekir ??: I want to sent me configuration to build mail server step by step I'd suggest to begin with: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mail.html Yes, read the

Re: mail server config

2012-02-02 Thread Walt Elam
I'm getting ready to install a new mail server. I want to configure sendmail+clamav+spamassassin+**mimedefang. I believe postfix is considered to be much more secure and better then sendmail overall. I have a mail server and find that postfix was pretty easy to setup and configure. In

Re: mail server/webmail

2009-04-24 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 13:53:28 -0700, Liontaur liont...@gmail.com wrote: fetchmail, gotcha. I'll look into that. I'm using it myself and I'm still happy with it. The advantage is that you can use it for more than just one POP account. The Outlook Express deal is not for me, that's for another

Re: mail server/webmail

2009-04-24 Thread Liontaur
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 1:44 AM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 13:53:28 -0700, Liontaur liont...@gmail.com wrote: fetchmail, gotcha. I'll look into that. I'm using it myself and I'm still happy with it. The advantage is that you can use it for more than just one POP

Re: mail server/webmail

2009-04-23 Thread Frederique Rijsdijk
Liontaur wrote: Hi folks, I was searching around but i'm not quite sure what i'm looking for. I want to have a program that gets the mail from my ISP mail server (pop), stores the mail permanently, allows me webmail access, and also lets me grab the mail with a mail client (Outlook Express). I'd

Re: mail server/webmail

2009-04-23 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 10:39:26 -0700, Liontaur liont...@gmail.com wrote: I want to have a program that gets the mail from my ISP mail server (pop), stores the mail permanently, This would be a task for fetchmail. It stores the mail in mbox format in /var/mail/$USER, so you can chose any mail

Re: mail server/webmail

2009-04-23 Thread Adam Vande More
Frederique Rijsdijk wrote: Liontaur wrote: Hi folks, I was searching around but i'm not quite sure what i'm looking for. I want to have a program that gets the mail from my ISP mail server (pop), stores the mail permanently, allows me webmail access, and also lets me grab the mail with a mail

Re: mail server/webmail

2009-04-23 Thread Jon Radel
Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 10:39:26 -0700, Liontaur liont...@gmail.com wrote: I'd like to be able to sync the mail with outlook express also. Maybe you can get Redmond to give you the source code of their... erm... stuff, so you can see how to interact with it. :-) At least one

Re: mail server/webmail

2009-04-23 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:49:01 -0400, Jon Radel j...@radel.com wrote: At least one person here, and it may well be me, is somewhat confused. Outlook Outlook Express Maybe. The original question included no reference to Outlook but Outlook Express. Forgive me my lack of knowledge, but I've

Re: mail server/webmail

2009-04-23 Thread Julien Cigar
On Thu, 2009-04-23 at 13:30 -0500, Adam Vande More wrote: Frederique Rijsdijk wrote: Liontaur wrote: Hi folks, I was searching around but i'm not quite sure what i'm looking for. I want to have a program that gets the mail from my ISP mail server (pop), stores the mail permanently, allows

Re: mail server/webmail

2009-04-23 Thread Jason Garrett
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 13:49, Jon Radel j...@radel.com wrote: Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 10:39:26 -0700, Liontaur liont...@gmail.com wrote: I'd like to be able to sync the mail with outlook express also. Maybe you can get Redmond to give you the source code of their...

Re: mail server/webmail

2009-04-23 Thread Liontaur
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 11:26 AM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 10:39:26 -0700, Liontaur liont...@gmail.com wrote: I want to have a program that gets the mail from my ISP mail server (pop), stores the mail permanently, This would be a task for fetchmail. It stores

Re: mail server/webmail

2009-04-23 Thread Steve Bertrand
Frederique Rijsdijk wrote: Liontaur wrote: Hi folks, I was searching around but i'm not quite sure what i'm looking for. I want to have a program that gets the mail from my ISP mail server (pop), stores the mail permanently, allows me webmail access, and also lets me grab the mail with a

RE: mail server

2008-12-04 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Karlos Linale Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2008 10:20 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: mail server Hello, I was wondering if you could help me. For some reason I keep getting hundreds

Re: mail server DNS configuration questions

2008-09-11 Thread CyberLeo Kitsana
Andrew Falanga wrote: ... While diagnosing this, I connect to the server (using Putty) from a machine in PN1, using either a mail client or telnet I'm unable to make a connection to the mail server over port 25. Using tcpdump during this putty session I do not even see the SYN packets for

Re: mail server DNS configuration questions

2008-09-10 Thread Andrew Falanga
Patrick Mahan wrote: Andrew Falanga presented these words - circa 9/6/08 6:28 PM- Hi, Well, my clients at church are still having issues and after working with George, a respondant to my original questions, I think that most, if not all, of my problems are related to DNS and how we've got

Re: mail server DNS configuration questions

2008-09-10 Thread Andrew Falanga
George Davidovich wrote: On Sat, Sep 06, 2008 at 07:28:28PM -0600, Andrew Falanga wrote: Well, my clients at church are still having issues and after working with George, a respondant to my original questions, I think that most, if not all, of my problems are related to DNS and how we've

Re: mail server DNS configuration questions

2008-09-10 Thread Andrew Falanga
Sahil Tandon wrote: Andrew Falanga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It doesn't take a rocket scientist, or a computer scientist, to figure out we've got DNS issues. What exactly is the problem though? What problems are you having on the mail server that lead you to the above conclusion?

Re: mail server DNS configuration questions

2008-09-10 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Andrew Falanga wrote: Clients in the churches private network cannot send mail using this server, though they can receive mail from it (POP). The church has a private network, PN1, and the mail server sits at a church members house because he has a static IP address; let's call that PN2.

Re: mail server DNS configuration questions

2008-09-09 Thread Patrick Mahan
Andrew Falanga presented these words - circa 9/6/08 6:28 PM- Hi, Well, my clients at church are still having issues and after working with George, a respondant to my original questions, I think that most, if not all, of my problems are related to DNS and how we've got it improperly

Re: mail server DNS configuration questions

2008-09-07 Thread RW
On Sat, 6 Sep 2008 19:28:28 -0600 Andrew Falanga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Well, my clients at church are still having issues and after working with George, a respondant to my original questions, I think that most, if not all, of my problems are related to DNS and how we've got it

Re: mail server DNS configuration questions

2008-09-07 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Andrew Falanga wrote: *Not having* a reverse entry for a mail server is often the cause of issues. This I do know very well. I had similar problems when running a sendmail backup spooler for Syracuse Networks back in 2000. The eventual solution was that our ISP delegated control of our

Re: mail server DNS configuration questions

2008-09-06 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Andrew Falanga wrote: Hi, Well, my clients at church are still having issues and after working with George, a respondant to my original questions, I think that most, if not all, of my problems are related to DNS and how we've got it improperly configured. First, a crude drawing of how our

Re: mail server DNS configuration questions

2008-09-06 Thread Sahil Tandon
Andrew Falanga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It doesn't take a rocket scientist, or a computer scientist, to figure out we've got DNS issues. What exactly is the problem though? What problems are you having on the mail server that lead you to the above conclusion? -- Sahil Tandon [EMAIL

Re: mail server DNS configuration questions

2008-09-06 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On September 6, 2008 7:28:28 PM -0600 Andrew Falanga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Well, my clients at church are still having issues and after working with George, a respondant to my original questions, I think that most, if not all, of my problems are related to DNS and how we've got it

Re: mail server DNS configuration questions

2008-09-06 Thread George Davidovich
On Sat, Sep 06, 2008 at 07:28:28PM -0600, Andrew Falanga wrote: Well, my clients at church are still having issues and after working with George, a respondant to my original questions, I think that most, if not all, of my problems are related to DNS and how we've got it improperly

Re: mail server from Windows to FreeBSD

2008-03-10 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 12:22:39PM +0200, Ivailo Bonev wrote: I have a Windows machine that get all e-mails, from few accounts, from different Internet providers. I want to setup FreeBSD machine that get all mails from accounts and remote and local users get their mails from that FreeBSD

Re: mail server from Windows to FreeBSD

2008-03-10 Thread Gerard
On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 19:33:30 +0100 Roland Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 12:22:39PM +0200, Ivailo Bonev wrote: I have a Windows machine that get all e-mails, from few accounts, from different Internet providers. I want to setup FreeBSD machine that get all mails

Re: mail server from Windows to FreeBSD

2008-03-10 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 03:39:01PM -0400, Gerard wrote: And one last thing, how can deliver all mail messages from Outlook Express client from Windows machine to FreeBSD mail server machine? You can set the FreeBSD machine as the outgoing mail server in Outlook. But this might not

Re: mail server from Windows to FreeBSD

2008-03-10 Thread Ezat - Ezatech
Hello Ivailo, This is possibly the best how to guide I have found which sets up postfix, dovecot, spamassassin, postfixadmin etc. Currently I have multiple domains which the mail server handles and they all have access either via webmail(Squirrelmail), IMAP pop.

Re: Mail server questions

2008-01-21 Thread Chess Griffin
Zachary Welch wrote: Hello to all, BSD newbie here, running 6.2 on a core 2 quad system I built. I'm Trying to get a secure mail server going and running into some snags: First things first - After installing postfix (which seems to work when testing) and cyrus-sasl2, I opted for

Re: Mail server questions

2008-01-21 Thread Gerard
On Mon, 21 Jan 2008 15:42:21 -0500 Zachary Welch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BSD newbie here, running 6.2 on a core 2 quad system I built. I'm Trying to get a secure mail server going and running into some snags: First things first - After installing postfix (which seems to work when

RE: mail server setup questions

2007-09-08 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of DAve Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2007 10:29 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mail server setup questions Don't wonder if qmail has flaws, go to CERT.org and search first

Re: mail server setup questions

2007-09-07 Thread Andrey Shuvikov
Thanks a lot for all your suggestions! I will probably still start from exim but at least I know now that the choice is not that critical, especially for a small home server. Thanks again, Andrey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: mail server setup questions - OT answer

2007-09-07 Thread Bill Vermillion
On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 20:40 , [EMAIL PROTECTED] exclaimed Las Cucarachas entran, Pero no pueden salir, and then rambled on saying with: Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2007 13:28:59 -0400 From: DAve [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: mail server setup questions To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Bill

RE: mail server setup questions

2007-09-07 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: Jim Stapleton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2007 2:04 PM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: Nikola Lecic; Russell E. Meek; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mail server setup questions I would submit you think you do

RE: mail server setup questions

2007-09-07 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Eric Crist Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2007 1:21 PM To: Andrey Shuvikov Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mail server setup questions On Sep 5, 2007, at 2:05 PMSep 5, 2007, Andrey

RE: mail server setup questions

2007-09-06 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: Nikola Lecic [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2007 8:20 AM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: Russell E. Meek; Jim Stapleton; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mail server setup questions On Wed, 5 Sep 2007 01:22:12 -0700 Ted

RE: mail server setup questions

2007-09-06 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Nikola Lecic Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2007 11:13 AM To: Jerry McAllister Cc: Eray Aslan; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Ted Mittelstaedt Subject: Re: mail server setup questions I'm very

RE: mail server setup questions

2007-09-06 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Eric Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2007 12:12 PM To: Andrey Shuvikov Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mail server setup questions Andrey Shuvikov wrote: Hi, I'm trying to set

Re: mail server setup questions

2007-09-06 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 11:37:11AM +1000, Norberto Meijome wrote: On Wed, 5 Sep 2007 16:52:56 -0400 Bob Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In case I haven't made myself clear, I despise Qmail with a passion. I suppose it is suitable for people who like puzzles (as in What patches do I need

Re: mail server setup questions

2007-09-06 Thread Chad Perrin
Mittelstaedt Subject: Re: mail server setup questions I'm very disappointed that more official people on this list didn't say something like Ted, please respect our users from all countries, including those two countries you have mentioned Perhaps the silence might give you pause

Re: mail server setup questions

2007-09-06 Thread Bob Johnson
On 9/5/07, Chad Perrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 11:37:11AM +1000, Norberto Meijome wrote: On Wed, 5 Sep 2007 16:52:56 -0400 Bob Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In case I haven't made myself clear, I despise Qmail with a passion. [...] I just realised that

Re: mail server setup questions

2007-09-06 Thread Bill Vermillion
In the last exciting episode of the [EMAIL PROTECTED] saga on Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 06:27 , [EMAIL PROTECTED] as heard to say: Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 11:37:11 +1000 From: Norberto Meijome [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: mail server setup questions To: Bob Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Andrey

Re: mail server setup questions

2007-09-06 Thread DAve
Bill Vermillion wrote: In the last exciting episode of the [EMAIL PROTECTED] saga on Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 06:27 , [EMAIL PROTECTED] as heard to say: Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 11:37:11 +1000 From: Norberto Meijome [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: mail server setup questions To: Bob Johnson [EMAIL

RE: mail server setup questions

2007-09-05 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Russell E. Meek Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2007 5:20 PM To: Jim Stapleton Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mail server setup questions Quoting Jim Stapleton [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I

Re: mail server setup questions

2007-09-05 Thread Nikola Lecic
On Tue, 4 Sep 2007 23:21:47 -0700 Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Kind of like the country of Iraq buying a nuclear device - they don't know what they have, don't know how to build it, and are not qualified at all to use it. [...] Please save us from these words of wisdom.

Re: mail server setup questions

2007-09-05 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Tue, 4 Sep 2007 18:03:20 -0400 Jim Stapleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need a mail server to take incoming mail, and provide a pop3 (or better yet, SSLed POP3) connection. Jim, - incoming email + delivery : postfix . Really well documented. Haven't found a feature not implemented. As

RE: mail server setup questions

2007-09-05 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Nikola Lecic Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2007 11:41 PM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: Russell E. Meek; Jim Stapleton; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mail server setup questions On Tue, 4 Sep

Re: mail server setup questions

2007-09-05 Thread Eray Aslan
On 05.09.2007 11:22, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: [...] Your reaction is facinating considering the location implied by your e-mail reply address. I can perhaps understand your adversion to the use of metaphors in language - God know the Serbian propagandists warped the metaphor beyond the

Re: mail server setup questions

2007-09-05 Thread Predrag Punosevac
On 05.09.2007 11:22, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: [...] Your reaction is facinating considering the location implied by your e-mail reply address. I can perhaps understand your adversion to the use of metaphors in language - God know the Serbian propagandists warped the metaphor beyond the

Re: mail server setup questions

2007-09-05 Thread Jim Stapleton
: Re: mail server setup questions On Tue, 4 Sep 2007 23:21:47 -0700 Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Kind of like the country of Iraq buying a nuclear device - they don't know what they have, don't know how to build it, and are not qualified at all to use

Re: mail server setup questions

2007-09-05 Thread Jim Stapleton
Jim posted here asking for help, using words and language that gives serious doubt that he is competent to run a mailserver of any kind. Knowledgeable and competant are two different things. If I were not competant, I would not bother attempting to get that knowledge that I lack. I don't

Re: mail server setup questions

2007-09-05 Thread Predrag Punosevac
Predrag Punosevac wrote: On 05.09.2007 11:22, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: [...] Your reaction is facinating considering the location implied by your e-mail reply address. I can perhaps understand your adversion to the use of metaphors in language - God know the Serbian propagandists warped

Re: mail server setup questions

2007-09-05 Thread Mel
On Wednesday 05 September 2007 12:34:45 Jim Stapleton wrote: Thank all of you for your suggestions, I'll look at them. This is a mail server for me and maybe a few friends. I plan on running incoming SMTP, maybe at some point outgoing (requiring authentication/SSL, definetly no relay), no

Re: mail server setup questions

2007-09-05 Thread Chad Perrin
On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 03:14:37AM -0700, Predrag Punosevac wrote: I thought were discussing the configuration of the mail server not your hatred toward us Serbs, Iraqis and God knows whom else. But then on the second thought maybe you are trying to teach us how to configure the spam

Re: mail server setup questions

2007-09-05 Thread Nikola Lecic
On Wed, 5 Sep 2007 01:22:12 -0700 Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Your reaction is facinating considering the location implied by your e-mail reply address. I can perhaps understand your adversion to the use of metaphors in language - God know the Serbian propagandists warped the

Re: mail server setup questions

2007-09-05 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Hi, 2007/9/5, Nikola Lecic [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, 5 Sep 2007 01:22:12 -0700 Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Your reaction is facinating considering the location implied by your e-mail reply address. I can perhaps understand your adversion to the use of metaphors in

RE: mail server setup questions

2007-09-05 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Predrag Punosevac Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2007 3:24 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: mail server setup questions On 05.09.2007 11:22, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: [...] Your

RE: mail server setup questions

2007-09-05 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Eray Aslan Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2007 2:05 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mail server setup questions Good advice. I am sure you could have written your response without

Re: mail server setup questions

2007-09-05 Thread Nikola Lecic
On Wed, 5 Sep 2007 17:44:15 +0200 Zbigniew Szalbot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, 2007/9/5, Nikola Lecic [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, 5 Sep 2007 01:22:12 -0700 Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Your reaction is facinating considering the location implied by your e-mail reply

RE: mail server setup questions

2007-09-05 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: Jim Stapleton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2007 3:55 AM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: Nikola Lecic; Russell E. Meek; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mail server setup questions Jim posted here asking for help, using

Re: mail server setup questions

2007-09-05 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Hello, Zbigniew, please don't teach me lessons in politeness. Ted posted two very offensive mails and everyone has a right to publicly reply to publicly posted offence. If that's problem for you, then ignore this thread. Be careful when using word rubbish. My apologies. I shoudn't have used

Re: mail server setup questions

2007-09-05 Thread N.J. Thomas
* Jim Stapleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-09-04 18:03:20 -0400]: I need a mail server to take incoming mail, and provide a pop3 (or better yet, SSLed POP3) connection. I would second the recommendation for Postfix -- and Dovecot for POP. Could you all suggest to me what you use and a good web

Re: mail server setup questions

2007-09-05 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 08:51:18AM -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Eray Aslan Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2007 2:05 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mail server setup

Re: mail server setup questions

2007-09-05 Thread Nikola Lecic
On Wed, 5 Sep 2007 12:28:51 -0400 Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Come on folks. You'll never get anywhere in a flame war with Ted. He changes the ground under you any time it is convenient. Jerry, I appreciate your good will, but he doesn't change ground. And this is not a flame

Re: mail server setup questions

2007-09-05 Thread Andrey Shuvikov
Hi, I'm trying to set up a home mailserver with imap/web access. But I was going to use exim. Several people mentioned postfix here, but nobody named exim. Is it a matter of personal preference or is exim not suitable for this task? Thanks, Andrey ___

[Fwd: Re: mail server setup questions]

2007-09-05 Thread Predrag Punosevac
---BeginMessage--- Andrey Shuvikov wrote: Hi, I'm trying to set up a home mailserver with imap/web access. But I was going to use exim. Several people mentioned postfix here, but nobody named exim. Is it a matter of personal preference or is exim not suitable for this task? Thanks, Andrey

Re: mail server setup questions

2007-09-05 Thread Predrag Punosevac
Andrey Shuvikov wrote: Hi, I'm trying to set up a home mailserver with imap/web access. But I was going to use exim. Several people mentioned postfix here, but nobody named exim. Is it a matter of personal preference or is exim not suitable for this task? Thanks, Andrey

Re: mail server setup questions

2007-09-05 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 12:21:56PM -0700, Predrag Punosevac wrote: Andrey Shuvikov wrote: Hi, I'm trying to set up a home mailserver with imap/web access. But I was going to use exim. Several people mentioned postfix here, but nobody named exim. Is it a matter of personal preference or is

Re: mail server setup questions

2007-09-05 Thread Eric
Andrey Shuvikov wrote: Hi, I'm trying to set up a home mailserver with imap/web access. But I was going to use exim. Several people mentioned postfix here, but nobody named exim. Is it a matter of personal preference or is exim not suitable for this task? Exim is a capable mailer as is

Re: mail server setup questions

2007-09-05 Thread Eric Crist
On Sep 5, 2007, at 2:05 PMSep 5, 2007, Andrey Shuvikov wrote: Hi, I'm trying to set up a home mailserver with imap/web access. But I was going to use exim. Several people mentioned postfix here, but nobody named exim. Is it a matter of personal preference or is exim not suitable for this task?

Re: mail server setup questions

2007-09-05 Thread Bob Johnson
On 9/5/07, Andrey Shuvikov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm trying to set up a home mailserver with imap/web access. But I was going to use exim. Several people mentioned postfix here, but nobody named exim. Is it a matter of personal preference or is exim not suitable for this task? It's

Re: mail server setup questions

2007-09-05 Thread Jim Stapleton
I would submit you think you do. For example, are you planning on putting a webmail interface on the server? A lot of people do. Well if you do and you put a scrap of CGI on there that has a hole in it a spammer can come along and cause that to relay mail from incoming http right into your

Re: mail server setup questions

2007-09-05 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Hello 2007/9/5, Andrey Shuvikov [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, I'm trying to set up a home mailserver with imap/web access. But I was going to use exim. Several people mentioned postfix here, but nobody named exim. Is it a matter of personal preference or is exim not suitable for this task? It is

Re: mail server setup questions

2007-09-05 Thread Chad Perrin
On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 04:52:56PM -0400, Bob Johnson wrote: On 9/5/07, Andrey Shuvikov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: mail server setup questions

2007-09-05 Thread Heiko Wundram (Beenic)
Am Mittwoch 05 September 2007 21:14:17 schrieb Predrag Punosevac: We have a exim at the University of Arizona and works really well (but I am just a user not a sysadmin). Me, personally, I can only swear by Postfix. I've set up numerous Postfix mail servers over the last two years, and I've

Re: mail server setup questions

2007-09-05 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Wed, 5 Sep 2007 16:52:56 -0400 Bob Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In case I haven't made myself clear, I despise Qmail with a passion. I suppose it is suitable for people who like puzzles (as in What patches do I need to make this do something useful? or What third-party tool do I need

Re: mail server setup questions

2007-09-04 Thread Eric Crist
On Sep 4, 2007, at 5:03 PMSep 4, 2007, Jim Stapleton wrote: I need a mail server to take incoming mail, and provide a pop3 (or better yet, SSLed POP3) connection. I've tried akpop3d and qmail, but have had less than brilliant success getting them functional. Could you all suggest to me what you

Re: mail server setup questions

2007-09-04 Thread Russell E. Meek
Quoting Jim Stapleton [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I need a mail server to take incoming mail, and provide a pop3 (or better yet, SSLed POP3) connection. I've tried akpop3d and qmail, but have had less than brilliant success getting them functional. Could you all suggest to me what you use and a good web

Re: mail server blues

2007-04-09 Thread doug
On Fri, 6 Apr 2007, Brian Hartley wrote: Hello, I have been going nuts trying to get a remote POP/SMTP mail server to work on 6.2-RELEASE. My mx and cnames are hosted at dyndns. I have tried exim, postfix and sendmail along with courier imap as the pop. Is there any good docs that can get me

Re: mail server blues

2007-04-09 Thread Bob Johnson
On 4/6/07, Jay Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: go with qmail... it rocks http://www.qmailrocks.org/ it's a damn good mta. My advice: stay away from qmail. Anything that requires a big pile of patches just to make it usable doesn't belong on your computer. And I probably get more

Re: mail server blues

2007-04-08 Thread Apatewna
O/H Eric έγραψε: qmail is horrible and outdated. heres a ton of reasons not to use it: snip But thats just my opinion! =) I use qmail and I am happy with it, following a composition of what suits me best from the following sites: a) http://www.freebsdrocks.net/ provides the basic

Re: mail server blues

2007-04-08 Thread adams
My company had a similar issue, we required a fairly turnkey solution for e-mail. If you don't have the time/want to actually set it up your self, and just want it to work I would suggest you try www.tnpi.net I didn't do the installation myself, I paid Matt's group to do it. Other than a few

Re: mail server blues

2007-04-07 Thread Eric
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

RE: mail server blues

2007-04-06 Thread Jay Gordon
go with qmail... it rocks http://www.qmailrocks.org/ it's a damn good mta. Jay Gordon Unix Systems Administrator DataPipe Managed Hosting Services - What It Means To Be Sure - [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.datapipe.com Tel: 201.792.1918 x2402 | Fax: 201-792-3090 -Original

Re: mail server blues

2007-04-06 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-04-06 20:31, Jay Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brian Hartley wrote: Hello, I have been going nuts trying to get a remote POP/SMTP mail server to work on 6.2-RELEASE. My mx and cnames are hosted at dyndns. I have tried exim, postfix and sendmail along with courier imap as the pop.

RE: mail server blues

2007-04-06 Thread Jay Gordon
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Fri 4/6/2007 8:53 PM To: Jay Gordon Cc: Brian Hartley; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mail server blues On 2007-04-06 20:31, Jay Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brian Hartley wrote: Hello, I have been going nuts trying to get a remote POP/SMTP mail server

Re: mail server blues

2007-04-06 Thread John Levine
go with qmail... it rocks I entirely agree. http://www.qmailrocks.org/ That uses way too many dodgy patches, as does the qmail port in the ports tree. I've been meaning to add a less overpatched port for netqmail, but in the meantime, you might want to get the O'Reilly qmail book and follow

Re: Mail server recomendations

2007-02-14 Thread Apatewna
J65nko wrote: [big snip] I use qmail using a combination of setup instructions from various sites like http://freebsdrocks.net www.lifewithqmail.org and applied the combined patch from http://qmail.jms1.net/ I am happy so far. The main thing is to build something that you understand and

Re: Mail server recomendations (was: is the list the right place toask?)

2007-02-12 Thread Ray
-Original Message- From: Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: John Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED], freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 20:04:11 -0800 Subject: Re: Mail server recomendations (was: is the list the right place toask

Re: Mail server recomendations (was: is the list the right place toask?)

2007-02-12 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
[I had originally meant to post this to the list, but had mailed it the individual poster instead (who send a very nice reply)] On Feb 10, 2007, at 10:04 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: I would caution anyone against using the alternatives. There are a lot of people that use them successfully,

Re: Mail server recomendations (was: is the list the right place toask?)

2007-02-12 Thread J65nko
On 2/11/07, Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [big snip] I would caution anyone against using the alternatives. There are a lot of people that use them successfully, but sendmail is far more popular in terms of total installs - this is no doubt because it is used in the larger mail

Re: Mail server recomendations

2007-02-10 Thread Ray
-Original Message- Thanks for all the suggestions. Looks like I have a lot of reading ahead :) Ray On Saturday 10 February 2007 01:33, Ray wrote: I'm looking for a package (or set of packages) that would provide a mail server with the following capabilities minimally: pop

Re: Mail server recomendations (was: is the list the right place toask?)

2007-02-10 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
- Original Message - From: John Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 09, 2007 10:57 PM Subject: Re: Mail server recomendations (was: is the list the right place toask?) On Saturday 10 February 2007 01:33, Ray

Re: Mail server recomendations

2007-02-09 Thread Joe Holden
Ray wrote: On 2/10/07, Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Just wondering if this list is the right place to ask for suggestions for what package to use for various purposes? Yep... what did you have in mind? I'm looking for a package (or set of packages) that would provide a mail server

Re: Mail server recomendations

2007-02-09 Thread Joe Holden
Joe Holden wrote: Post for for smtp. Postfix even. -- Joe Holden Telephone: +44 (0) 207 100 9593 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: Mail server recomendations (was: is the list the right place to ask?)

2007-02-09 Thread John Nielsen
On Saturday 10 February 2007 01:33, Ray wrote: I'm looking for a package (or set of packages) that would provide a mail server with the following capabilities minimally: pop and smtp access that could handle 20 to 100 domains and 200 to 2000 mail boxes.(allowing some room for future growth)

Re: Mail server intermittent freeze

2007-01-21 Thread Christian Baer
On Sat, 20 Jan 2007 19:56:08 -0600 (CST) Rich Winkel wrote: Has anyone else seen this behavior?? What are the HDs doing? Is there swapping going on? 512 megs of RAM are not really a generous amount for this kind of work. Regards Chris ___

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