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MTA thoughts
Well just as soon as Cox Business gets around to my place, I'll be setting up an MTA for use on my FreeBSD server. It'll serve email for my small business as well as home/family.
I want to get a feel for what the community is using in terms of MTA's and get your thoughts on them. I've heard good things about postfix. Also note, I haven't had much time to research this yet, so be gentle
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definitely recommend postfix ... but that's only coz i think it's easy to learn and it's all i've bothered to learn as everyone i've worked for uses it
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i am using postfix as an MTA from the first time i had to setup an email server.
things i have noticed: * syntax is very easy and understandable * documentation is very complete and accurate * easy to setup with a database backend (currently using mysql to store the domains/accounts) * there is postfix admin a web GUI which is pretty easy to setup and use for administration of you email server and here is a very good and self explanatory tutorial. keep in mind that postfix is the only MTA i have ever used so i can't make a comparison to another one. others are more than welcomed to comment upon this. /v |
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don't pump the use of web interfaces for applications ... sheesh!! :P
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I settled with Postfix as well. I've used sendmail and qmail in the past but for the past few years it has been Postfix 100% .. very straight forward and easy to understand.
For home/small business, ASSP seems to be a nice compliment for spam filtering. |
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We use assp for antispam and we filter 30000 messages a day.
Pros: Very effective and it doesn't interfere with the MTA Cons: High CPU usage, bad port maintainer. George
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Well, postfix it is then.
The web interface: Can you run that from another server (like you can phpMyAdmin and connect to a remote database)? I'd prefer not to have apache on my mail server if possible. If not, I can NFS export the necessary filesystems from the MX to the WWW server.
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I would probably use postfix or qmail
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Also consider the DNS issues that might arise from a small SOHO mail server. Regards, George
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Also - What DNS issues might arise from a SOHO mail server?
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there's even a port /usr/ports/mail/postfixadmin /v
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Doh! Thanks, I'll check it out.
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Polemic Sendmail
I have been using sendmail for many years , it have had security issues , but not anymore (since 3 years ago) it is fast , easy to configure , lots of documentation , auth modules , ldap modules and it has many interesting features , supports also a big amount of traffic .
I have heard PostFix is great also , secure and very good i have NOT tried but i think is very good!!! please let us know what you decided and why!!!!! |
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here is some comparison
http://shearer.org/MTA_Comparison why nobody mention exim ( www.exim.org ) ) It is very powerfull multifunctional mail server. There is a plenty of documentation for it. For me it was a little hard to move from sendmail to it, but now I am completely satisfied with Exim. Last edited by edhunter; 27th May 2008 at 09:13 AM. |
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I've never known anyone to choose to use exim. It seems the majority of exim users are debian users, not surprising since this is the default MTA
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I'm also running exim and it is working great. Has all kind of nice options to filter mails. For spam filtering I recommend ASSP it works much better then SA and reduces the load significant.
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I'll probably get flogged for this but take a look at Citadel if you want an easy one step, no hassle Collaboration suite. I like Zimbra as well but it doesn't run on *BSD. As a consultant, a good web interface (I didn't say GUI) is eesential. I Just don't have time to muck around remembering specific command when I can log into the web and fix it.
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