Re: Need to build a new mail server

Postfix rules, Dovecot or cyrus, though dovecot seems more managable

my take running an ISP based mail system
Postfix Definately
Qmail, its ok, in most cases scenerios
Exim - No way

and Dovecot or Cyrus for imaps/imap


On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 10:05 PM, Oliver Fromme <olli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

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.
>
> However, it's been some time since I looked into options for mail
> servers. I'm interested in both suggestions for hardware and mail
> servers that would make for the best FreeBSD based mail server.
>
> I've only got about two dozen users, though they are all very heavy
> users of email. I'm using IMAP, and I'd like to continue to do so.
>
> Finally, we have quite a few aliases I'd want to port over to a
> new server.

I also recommend dovecot. I'm using it for several years
without a problem, and it was quite simple to setup.

I'm using it with sendmail, though (not postfix), because
I've been using sendmail for almost 20 years and haven't
had a reason to switch. If you're already familiar with
sendmail on Solaris, then I recommend you continue using
sendmail on FreeBSD (it's the default MTA that comes with
the base system).

Having said that, Postfix _is_ a very good MTA, I'm using
it at work. If you're willing to switch and invest a
little bit of time learning something new, then Postfix
is certainly a good choice. It's quite easy to install
Postfix from the ports collection.

Best regards
Oliver

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