Re: Help with setting up a mail server

2010-07-23 Thread krad
On 23 July 2010 10:12, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 8:28 PM, Jerry wrote: > > > On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 17:28:00 +0300 > > Odhiambo Washington articulated: > > > > > On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 4:52 PM, Jerry > > wrote: > > > > > > > On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 13:32:36 +0100 > > > > k

Re: Help with setting up a mail server

2010-07-23 Thread Odhiambo Washington
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 8:28 PM, Jerry wrote: > On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 17:28:00 +0300 > Odhiambo Washington articulated: > > > On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 4:52 PM, Jerry > wrote: > > > > > On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 13:32:36 +0100 > > > krad articulated: > > > > > > > > > > yep I know exim is sendmail cli c

Re: Help with setting up a mail server

2010-07-23 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 09:52:53AM -0400, Jerry typed: > On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 13:32:36 +0100 > krad articulated: > > > > yep I know exim is sendmail cli compatible, but the output from sendmail is > > not the same on exim (interactive prompt). You can probably get similar > > output from sendmail

Re: Help with setting up a mail server

2010-07-22 Thread RW
On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 13:28:54 -0400 Jerry wrote: > For starters, you are using the wrong sendmail. You need to use the > Postfix 'sendmail' version. > > $ which sendmail > /usr/sbin/sendmail > > I have Postfix installed and running. Sorry, I thought that was > obvious. > > Typing: "man sendmai

Re: Help with setting up a mail server

2010-07-22 Thread Jerry
On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 17:28:00 +0300 Odhiambo Washington articulated: > On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 4:52 PM, Jerry wrote: > > > On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 13:32:36 +0100 > > krad articulated: > > > > > > > yep I know exim is sendmail cli compatible, but the output from sendmail > > is > > > not the same on

Re: Help with setting up a mail server

2010-07-22 Thread Odhiambo Washington
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 4:52 PM, Jerry wrote: > On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 13:32:36 +0100 > krad articulated: > > > > yep I know exim is sendmail cli compatible, but the output from sendmail > is > > not the same on exim (interactive prompt). You can probably get similar > > output from sendmail, but w

Re: Help with setting up a mail server

2010-07-22 Thread Jerry
On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 13:32:36 +0100 krad articulated: > yep I know exim is sendmail cli compatible, but the output from sendmail is > not the same on exim (interactive prompt). You can probably get similar > output from sendmail, but with most things sendmail it is archaic and > obfuscated. With

Re: Help with setting up a mail server

2010-07-22 Thread krad
On 22 July 2010 12:26, Ruben de Groot wrote: > On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 07:35:48PM +0100, krad typed: > > > > while we are on the topic of debugging I would recomend exim as an MTA. I > > manage a few large enterprise mail systems with 10M + active accounts. A > lot > > of them are legacy systems

Re: Help with setting up a mail server

2010-07-22 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 07:35:48PM +0100, krad typed: > > while we are on the topic of debugging I would recomend exim as an MTA. I > manage a few large enterprise mail systems with 10M + active accounts. A lot > of them are legacy systems that we gained through acquisitions. I generally > have to

Re: Help with setting up a mail server

2010-07-21 Thread krad
On 21 July 2010 16:24, Cristiano Deana wrote: > On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 3:26 PM, Aryeh M. Friedman > wrote: > > > 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 unab

Re: Help with setting up a mail server

2010-07-21 Thread Cristiano Deana
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 3:26 PM, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: > 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. steps: a) check if your dns a

Re: Help with setting up a mail server

2010-07-21 Thread Jerry
On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 08:54:44 +0300 Odhiambo Washington articulated: > I doubt anyone makes a choice on an MTA (or any other software) based > on it's RFC-compliance. > In my experience, it's normally boils down to: > > 1. It has the features that I want > 2. I can swim with it in times of torubl

Re: Help with setting up a mail server

2010-07-20 Thread Tim Judd
On 7/20/10, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 11:50 PM, Jerry wrote: >> On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 21:03:55 +0300 >> Odhiambo Washington articulated: >> >> >>> On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 4:46 PM, Aryeh M. Friedman >>> wrote: >>> > On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 09:33:28 -0400 >>> > Jerry wrote:

Re: Help with setting up a mail server

2010-07-20 Thread Odhiambo Washington
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 11:50 PM, Jerry wrote: > On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 21:03:55 +0300 > Odhiambo Washington articulated: > > >> On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 4:46 PM, Aryeh M. Friedman >> wrote: >> > On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 09:33:28 -0400 >> > Jerry wrote: >> > >> >> On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 09:26:44 -0400 >> >

Re: Help with setting up a mail server

2010-07-20 Thread Jerry
On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 21:03:55 +0300 Odhiambo Washington articulated: > On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 4:46 PM, Aryeh M. Friedman > wrote: > > On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 09:33:28 -0400 > > Jerry wrote: > > > >> On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 09:26:44 -0400 > >> Aryeh M. Friedman articulated: > >> > >> > I am a consulta

Re: Help with setting up a mail server

2010-07-20 Thread Bill Tillman
Message: 24 Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 14:05:13 -0400 From: Jerry McAllister Subject: Re: Help with setting up a mail server To: Odhiambo Washington Cc: "Aryeh M. Friedman" ,     freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20100720180513.gb46...@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> Content-Type: tex

Re: Help with setting up a mail server

2010-07-20 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 09:03:55PM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 4:46 PM, Aryeh M. Friedman > wrote: > > On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 09:33:28 -0400 > > Jerry wrote: > > > >> On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 09:26:44 -0400 > >> Aryeh M. Friedman articulated: > >> > >> > I am a consultan

Re: Help with setting up a mail server

2010-07-20 Thread Odhiambo Washington
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 4:46 PM, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: > On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 09:33:28 -0400 > Jerry wrote: > >> On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 09:26:44 -0400 >> Aryeh M. Friedman articulated: >> >> > I am a consultant and was retained by my client to setup qmail or >> > exim on a VPS running 8.0-STABLE

Re: Help with setting up a mail server

2010-07-20 Thread Erik Norgaard
On 20/07/10 15.26, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: 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

Re: Help with setting up a mail server

2010-07-20 Thread Greg Larkin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: > 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/ha

Re: Help with setting up a mail server

2010-07-20 Thread Jerry
On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 09:46:09 -0400 Aryeh M. Friedman articulated: > On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 09:33:28 -0400 > Jerry wrote: > > > On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 09:26:44 -0400 > > Aryeh M. Friedman articulated: > > > > > I am a consultant and was retained by my client to setup qmail or > > > exim on a VPS ru

Re: Help with setting up a mail server

2010-07-20 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 09:33:28 -0400 Jerry wrote: > On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 09:26:44 -0400 > Aryeh M. Friedman 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 hav

Re: Help with setting up a mail server

2010-07-20 Thread Jerry
On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 09:26:44 -0400 Aryeh M. Friedman 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