mail server setup questions

Ted Mittelstaedt tedm at toybox.placo.com
Thu Sep 6 23:34:07 PDT 2007



> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Eric Crist
> Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2007 1:21 PM
> To: Andrey Shuvikov
> Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: mail server setup questions
> 
> 
> 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?
> 
> Andrey,
> 
> I can't speak of exim or qmail, but I had used sendmail for nearly 10  
> years before switching to postfix.  I switched was for support of  
> virtual mail boxes, and better support for IMAP.

Just a quick nit to pick here - delivering to virtual mailboxes is
the job of the local delivery agent, not Sendmail.  Many people have
written scripts that deliver mail to mySQL databases, etc. to support
virtual mailboxes, that work with Sendmail just fine.

The IMAP server also has nothing whatsoever to do with sendmail, or
any mail transfer agent for that matter.  By definition, it's a 
completely separate server.

Ted


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