Need to build a new mail server

[Odhiambo Washington]

On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 10:52 PM, Jerry McAllister <jerrymc at msu.edu> wrote:

> On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 01:35:27PM -0400, Patrick Baldwin wrote:
>
> > Hi all, I've got an older Solaris system running Sendmail for my
> > mail server right now.  It's about time to replace it, and I'm
> > thinking FreeBSD might be the best choice of OS for the replacement.
>
> Given that, a FreeBSD system could be almost a drop-in replacement.
> Sendmail should be the same or very nearly so (depends on the version
> you are using now and the nre version).   Aliases should work just
> the same.     Your only differences might be in where some things
> live.    But, check out the hier(7) man page in FreeBSD.   It
> documents the FreeBSD directory conventions.
>
> There are other MTAs and other utilities available to experiment with.
> But, if you are comfortable with sendmail, there is no reason to change.
> It is mature and very functional; does what you need.    A modern
> machine with FreeBSD 7.x should handle large numbers of Email users -
> even heavy users.
>
> ////jerry
>

The only perfect answer!
We should all clap for you for giving this answer.

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