On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 2:33 PM, G B via smartos-discuss < [email protected]> wrote:
> I presently have my mail server running on OpenSMTPD on OpenBSD in KVM on > SmartOS, but for some reason every few months it stops responding and I > have to stop the KVM zone and start it again, even rebooting OpenBSD > doesn't work to restore service. Given that, I'm looking to move mail to a > SmartOS zone which leaves me with Postfix and Sendmail (because I can't get > OpenSMTPD to build on Solaris (huge bummer)). I used Sendmail before > OpenSMTPD and since I don't have the burning desire to learn yet another > MTA configuration (my current OpenSMTPD config is 6 lines!), I'd like to > just use Sendmail, but it doesn't start. > Sounds like you are wanting an SMTP server, not an MTA. There's solutions that are infinitely better than sendmail. With all of the phishing and malware these days, I'd never run a smtp server that didn't have a proxy at the front door scanning incoming connections and dropping those that are on the blacklists. Over the years, I've been involved heavily with the SME Server distro: www.contribs.org. One of SMEs strong suites is its mail server. It uses qpsmtpd as the smtp and smtp proxy, and gives the admin the ability to scan quite alot of different types of content. You can use SME either transparently or as a full smtp/mta deployment. SME does quite alot more than this, but that's one of its strong points. SME's MTA is old though (qmail), but it works well. There are some other turnkey solutions out there like SME that you can deploy to be your SMTP. If I were to build my own homebrew in a zone, I'd probably be looking at postfix. Greg ------------------------------------------- smartos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/25769125-55cfbc00 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=25769125&id_secret=25769125-7688e9fb Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
