Help with setting up a mail server

[Odhiambo Washington]

On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 4:46 PM, Aryeh M. Friedman
<aryeh.friedman at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 09:33:28 -0400
> Jerry <freebsd.user at seibercom.net> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 09:26:44 -0400
>> Aryeh M. Friedman <aryeh.friedman at gmail.com> articulated:
>>
>> > I am a consultant and was retained by my client to setup qmail or
>> > exim on a VPS running 8.0-STABLE (i386). After setting up the DNS
>> > (A record and MX record) we have been unable to send or receive
>> > mail. The client has/had a working script for installing qmail on
>> > 7.1-STABLE but it seems to not work on 8.0-STABLE. They are using
>> > the same VPS provider who this 7.1-STABLE install script worked
>> > under. I have tried everything I can think of to make it work
>> > including asking obvious questions on -questions at .
>> >
>> > I informed the client that the task is likely beyond me capabilities
>> > but I would help recruit someone who would be able to do it at a
>> > reasonable fee paid to them (I am acting as a no cost middle man on
>> > this [I am helping the client for free since I was unable to get it
>> > done]).
>> >
>> > Please send any ideas and/or offers to do the job
>>
>> I would seriously suggest that you consider installing Postfix. It is
>> in the ports tree, is well maintained and works out of the box. The
>> Postfix forum will be glad to give you any advice you need for setting
>> up and securing your mail server. Qmail is no longer supported by its
>> author and can be a nightmare to maintain.
>>
>
> We had also tried sendmail and couldn't get that working either so I
> suspect it is a general config issue not a MTA one.  (I have set
> sendmail up about 30 times in the past so I know a little bit about it)

Exim is a very good choice. Forget the Postfix suggestions. It's
Sendmail's brother:-)


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