Re: MTA choice

2010-08-30 Thread Gilles Chehade
On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 12:07:47PM +0200, Jean-Francois wrote: > Le mercredi 18 ao{t 2010 11:10:47, Gregory Edigarov a icrit : > > On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 10:07:58 +0200 > > > > Henning Brauer wrote: > > > * Gregory Edigarov [2010-08-17 09:29]: > > > > Qmail??? Postfix??? "easiest to use" Oh, ple

Re: MTA choice

2010-08-28 Thread Jean-Francois
Le mercredi 18 ao{t 2010 11:10:47, Gregory Edigarov a icrit : > On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 10:07:58 +0200 > > Henning Brauer wrote: > > * Gregory Edigarov [2010-08-17 09:29]: > > > Qmail??? Postfix??? "easiest to use" Oh, please don't... I would > > > even not give a dime to exim, which of the "big

Re: MTA choice

2010-08-18 Thread Peter J. Philipp
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 08:47:43PM +0200, Robert wrote: > On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 19:42:09 +0200 > "Peter J. Philipp" wrote: > > Thanks. I'm trying to interpret that marc archive right. Was it that you > > had your /etc/mailer.conf not updated to the opensmtpd binaries? Well > > anyhow > > Yes,

Re: MTA choice

2010-08-18 Thread Robert
On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 19:42:09 +0200 "Peter J. Philipp" wrote: > Thanks. I'm trying to interpret that marc archive right. Was it that you > had your /etc/mailer.conf not updated to the opensmtpd binaries? Well anyhow Yes, that's correct. Just to be sure: you did run newaliases? regards, Robert

Re: MTA choice

2010-08-18 Thread Peter J. Philipp
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 07:00:25PM +0200, Robert wrote: > On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 11:19:10 +0200 > "Peter J. Philipp" wrote: > > It works at home too, with a bit of hackery by myself. A while ago I > > noticed > > OpenSMTPD didn't deliver to aliases, but I'm unsure if it has been fixed yet > > or if

Re: MTA choice

2010-08-18 Thread Robert
On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 11:19:10 +0200 "Peter J. Philipp" wrote: > It works at home too, with a bit of hackery by myself. A while ago I noticed > OpenSMTPD didn't deliver to aliases, but I'm unsure if it has been fixed yet > or if I and mouring were the only ones that had the problem. I'm looking fo

Re: MTA choice

2010-08-18 Thread Gilles Chehade
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 11:19:10AM +0200, Peter J. Philipp wrote: > On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 12:10:47PM +0300, Gregory Edigarov wrote: > > Agreed. That left us to only the choice between sendmail/OpenSMTPD :) > > I would definitelly advise for Opensmtpd, but not yet, at least not > > before the 4.8

Re: MTA choice

2010-08-18 Thread Gilles Chehade
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 12:10:47PM +0300, Gregory Edigarov wrote: > On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 10:07:58 +0200 > Henning Brauer wrote: > > > * Gregory Edigarov [2010-08-17 09:29]: > > > Qmail??? Postfix??? "easiest to use" Oh, please don't... I would > > > even not give a dime to exim, which of the

Re: MTA choice

2010-08-18 Thread Peter J. Philipp
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 12:10:47PM +0300, Gregory Edigarov wrote: > Agreed. That left us to only the choice between sendmail/OpenSMTPD :) > I would definitelly advise for Opensmtpd, but not yet, at least not > before the 4.8 rel will be rolled, though in 4.7 it is quite stable, > and runs perfectly

Re: MTA choice

2010-08-18 Thread Gregory Edigarov
On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 10:07:58 +0200 Henning Brauer wrote: > * Gregory Edigarov [2010-08-17 09:29]: > > Qmail??? Postfix??? "easiest to use" Oh, please don't... I would > > even not give a dime to exim, which of the "big guys" I love the > > most, in the terms of ease of configure. So now I d

Re: MTA choice

2010-08-18 Thread Henning Brauer
* Gregory Edigarov [2010-08-17 09:29]: > Qmail??? Postfix??? "easiest to use" Oh, please don't... I would > even not give a dime to exim, which of the "big guys" I love the > most, in the terms of ease of configure. So now I definitelly see > OpenSMTPD as a very viable alternative. exim i

Re: MTA choice

2010-08-17 Thread Gregory Edigarov
On Mon, 16 Aug 2010 09:36:00 -0700 Chris Cappuccio wrote: > Kevin Chadwick [ma1l1i...@yahoo.co.uk] wrote: > > > > One thing which is debateable for hours is smtp connections and > > verps which is why an rfc can't be decided upon (performance (for > > spammers too) vs functionality). qmail has t

Re: MTA choice

2010-08-16 Thread Chris Cappuccio
Kevin Chadwick [ma1l1i...@yahoo.co.uk] wrote: > > One thing which is debateable for hours is smtp connections and verps > which is why an rfc can't be decided upon (performance (for spammers > too) vs functionality). qmail has taught other MTAs far more than any > other MTA has taught qmail. That

Re: MTA choice

2010-08-14 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Fri, 13 Aug 2010 16:31:49 -0400 Rich Kulawiec wrote: > Qmail is best-known among everyone equipped with sufficient experience > as the cause of numerous operational issues and a fair amount of abuse > thanks to a number of very poor design and implementation decisions. > Many of these have bee

Re: MTA choice

2010-08-14 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
Dave Anderson wrote: On Fri, 13 Aug 2010, Jacob Yocom-Piatt wrote: Dave Anderson wrote: On Fri, 13 Aug 2010,j...@fixedpointgroup.com wrote: sendmail is fine if you have a few users at a relatively quiet domain, all of whom you want to have system accounts on the mailserver

Re: MTA choice

2010-08-13 Thread Mike M
On 8/13/2010 at 11:26 PM Benny LC6fgren wrote: |Steve Shockley wrote: |> On 8/13/2010 2:55 AM, open...@e-solutions.re wrote: |>> Is there someone to advice me about the choice of the MTA ? |> |> I've used Courier-MTA on OpenBSD for a few years. I think it's a good |> choice if you want an all-in-

Re: MTA choice

2010-08-13 Thread Benny Löfgren
Steve Shockley wrote: On 8/13/2010 2:55 AM, open...@e-solutions.re wrote: Is there someone to advice me about the choice of the MTA ? I've used Courier-MTA on OpenBSD for a few years. I think it's a good choice if you want an all-in-one package but you don't think your mail server should co

Re: MTA choice

2010-08-13 Thread Rich Kulawiec
Qmail is best-known among everyone equipped with sufficient experience as the cause of numerous operational issues and a fair amount of abuse thanks to a number of very poor design and implementation decisions. Many of these have been discussed over the year in exhaustive detail on the appropriate

Re: MTA choice

2010-08-13 Thread Internet Retard
> Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 14:20:15 -0500 > From: sl...@peereboom.us > To: webret...@live.com > CC: r...@gsp.org; misc@openbsd.org > Subject: Re: MTA choice > > Well he believes that hard disks never lie. I guess he has a CS degree. Go away clown. And take your "practica

Re: MTA choice

2010-08-13 Thread Marco Peereboom
Well he believes that hard disks never lie. I guess he has a CS degree. On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 07:09:41PM +, Internet Retard wrote: > > Qmail is crap and is only used by people who don't know any better. > > > > ---Rsk > > DJB wrote qmail. He codes circles around most clowns and talks a lot

Re: MTA choice

2010-08-13 Thread Internet Retard
> Qmail is crap and is only used by people who don't know any better. > > ---Rsk DJB wrote qmail. He codes circles around most clowns and talks a lot of smack (similar to our noble leader) and he can back it up too. Take the qmail challenge. I don't care for MTA software at all, but qmail is pure

Re: MTA choice

2010-08-13 Thread Martin Schröder
2010/8/13 Jacob Yocom-Piatt : > sendmail is a piece of software that is historically notorious for security > problems IMHO this opinion is based on information from the last century; how many security problems were there in the last decade? Best Martin

Re: MTA choice

2010-08-13 Thread Dave Anderson
On Fri, 13 Aug 2010, Jacob Yocom-Piatt wrote: >Dave Anderson wrote: >> On Fri, 13 Aug 2010,j...@fixedpointgroup.com wrote: >> >>> sendmail is fine if you have a few users at a relatively quiet domain, >>> all of whom you want to have system accounts on the mailserver. >>> >> You imply that sendma

Re: MTA choice

2010-08-13 Thread Bret S. Lambert
Real hackers do their email with awk and nc.

Re: MTA choice

2010-08-13 Thread Siju George
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 8:00 PM, wrote: >> i have heard good things about qmail but never used it myself. > > Thank's for your answer. > > http://www.lifewithqmail.org/ldap/ name sounds similar. date. --Siju

Re: MTA choice

2010-08-13 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
Dave Anderson wrote: On Fri, 13 Aug 2010,j...@fixedpointgroup.com wrote: sendmail is fine if you have a few users at a relatively quiet domain, all of whom you want to have system accounts on the mailserver. You imply that sendmail is _only_ fine for such limited uses, which is cert

Re: MTA choice

2010-08-13 Thread Fredrik Henbjork
On 08/13/2010 04:02 PM, Daniel Ouellet wrote: But I also like my network servers to have been "field proven in the nasty wilderness" by others for some time before starting to use them myself in production, Men, that's rather very selfish! So, you want everyone one else to do the work, but not

Re: MTA choice

2010-08-13 Thread James Peltier
- Original Message > From: "open...@e-solutions.re" > To: misc@openbsd.org > Cc: Christer Solskogen > Sent: Fri, August 13, 2010 12:41:36 AM > Subject: Re: MTA choice > > I only want to know what is better (easiest way, most secure) to use. > And hav

Re: MTA choice

2010-08-13 Thread Mike M
On 8/13/2010 at 3:43 AM Peter Miller wrote: |> I only want to know what is better (easiest way, most secure) to use. |> And have your advice. | |He just gave it to you. sendmail. = My opinion, and my opinion only - if you do notd to change any of the configuration settings from the

Re: MTA choice

2010-08-13 Thread Mike M
On 8/13/2010 at 9:04 AM Christer Solskogen wrote: |On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 8:55 AM, wrote: |> Hi, |> |> I want to install a mailserver. |> What is the easiest and the most secure solution ? |> OpenBSD comes with Sendmail. I seen a lot of people use Postfix instead |> Sendmail. |> Is there someon

Re: MTA choice

2010-08-13 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Fri, 13 Aug 2010 10:14:52 -0400 > > Qmail is crap and is only used by people who don't know any better. > > ---Rsk > Actually "q"mail is only used by people who do know better because otherwise people like yahoo wouldn't go to such lengths to install it (caused by it's old licensing). There

Re: MTA choice

2010-08-13 Thread Dave Anderson
On Fri, 13 Aug 2010, j...@fixedpointgroup.com wrote: >sendmail is fine if you have a few users at a relatively quiet domain, >all of whom you want to have system accounts on the mailserver. You imply that sendmail is _only_ fine for such limited uses, which is certainly not true in my experience;

Re: MTA choice

2010-08-13 Thread Rich Kulawiec
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 10:55:13AM +0400, open...@e-solutions.re wrote: > I want to install a mailserver. > What is the easiest and the most secure solution ? > OpenBSD comes with Sendmail. I seen a lot of people use Postfix instead > Sendmail. > Is there someone to advice me about the choice of th

Re: MTA choice

2010-08-13 Thread Steve Shockley
On 8/13/2010 2:55 AM, open...@e-solutions.re wrote: Is there someone to advice me about the choice of the MTA ? I've used Courier-MTA on OpenBSD for a few years. I think it's a good choice if you want an all-in-one package but you don't think your mail server should come with an OS (Zimbra).

Re: MTA choice

2010-08-13 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Fri, 13 Aug 2010 12:27:56 +0200 Henning Brauer wrote: > * Peter Miller [2010-08-13 10:46]: > > > I only want to know what is better (easiest way, most secure) to use. > > > And have your advice. > > > > He just gave it to you. sendmail. > > I would never use sendmail for anything halfway se

Re: MTA choice

2010-08-13 Thread Frans Haarman
On 13 August 2010 16:30, wrote: > On Fri, 13 Aug 2010 09:23:30 -0500, "j...@fixedpointgroup.com" > wrote: >> sendmail is fine if you have a few users at a relatively quiet domain, >> all of whom you want to have system accounts on the mailserver. smtpd >> does similarly but has unpredictable beh

Re: MTA choice

2010-08-13 Thread Henning Brauer
* Fredrik Henbjork [2010-08-13 15:57]: > What are your views on qmail versus Postfix? irrelevant here anyway. -- Henning Brauer, h...@bsws.de, henn...@openbsd.org BS Web Services, http://bsws.de Full-Service ISP - Secure Hosting, Mail and DNS Services Dedicated Servers, Rootservers, Application

Re: MTA choice

2010-08-13 Thread openbsd
On Fri, 13 Aug 2010 09:23:30 -0500, "j...@fixedpointgroup.com" wrote: > sendmail is fine if you have a few users at a relatively quiet domain, > all of whom you want to have system accounts on the mailserver. smtpd > does similarly but has unpredictable behavior at best. i spent many > hours fi

Re: MTA choice

2010-08-13 Thread Jan Stary
> > I want to install a mailserver. > > What is the easiest and the most secure solution ? Your mom.

Re: MTA choice

2010-08-13 Thread j...@fixedpointgroup.com
Henning Brauer wrote: * Peter Miller [2010-08-13 10:46]: I only want to know what is better (easiest way, most secure) to use. And have your advice. He just gave it to you. sendmail. I would never use sendmail for anything halfway serious. ++ sendmail is fine if you

Re: MTA choice

2010-08-13 Thread L. V. Lammert
On Fri, 13 Aug 2010 open...@e-solutions.re wrote: > Hi, > > I want to install a mailserver. > What is the easiest and the most secure solution ? > OpenBSD comes with Sendmail. I seen a lot of people use Postfix instead > Sendmail. > Is there someone to advice me about the choice of the MTA ? > > T

Re: MTA choice

2010-08-13 Thread Daniel Ouellet
But I also like my network servers to have been "field proven in the nasty wilderness" by others for some time before starting to use them myself in production, Men, that's rather very selfish! So, you want everyone one else to do the work, but not you!? You don't want to participate in testing

Re: MTA choice

2010-08-13 Thread Fredrik Henbjork
On 08/13/2010 12:27 PM, Henning Brauer wrote: * Peter Miller [2010-08-13 10:46]: I only want to know what is better (easiest way, most secure) to use. And have your advice. He just gave it to you. sendmail. I would never use sendmail for anything halfway serious. What are your views on qm

Re: MTA choice

2010-08-13 Thread Fredrik Henbjork
On 08/13/2010 03:00 PM, Daniel Ouellet wrote: Hmmm. Sendmail was in base and is still in the system, but was replace as the default MTA by smtpd a few release ago. So, I sure don't thin you will see smtpd being replace again by something else in base. It was already done. Check the archive. It

Re: MTA choice

2010-08-13 Thread Daniel Ouellet
On 8/13/10 9:08 AM, Henning Brauer wrote: * Daniel Ouellet [2010-08-13 15:04]: Hmmm. Sendmail was in base and is still in the system, but was replace as the default MTA by smtpd a few release ago. bullshit. You are right as out of the box MTA in standard operation. I should phase it differ

Re: MTA choice

2010-08-13 Thread Henning Brauer
* Daniel Ouellet [2010-08-13 15:04]: > Hmmm. Sendmail was in base and is still in the system, but was > replace as the default MTA by smtpd a few release ago. bullshit. -- Henning Brauer, h...@bsws.de, henn...@openbsd.org BS Web Services, http://bsws.de Full-Service ISP - Secure Hosting, Mail a

Re: MTA choice

2010-08-13 Thread Daniel Ouellet
On 8/13/10 8:27 AM, Fredrik Henbjork wrote: On 08/13/2010 10:49 AM, Richard Toohey wrote: But as Christer has said, if it's in the OpenBSD base, that should mean something. Just because it's in base doesn't mean that it's the "best" choice. After all, it *could* just mean that noone has had t

Re: MTA choice

2010-08-13 Thread Daniel Ouellet
On 8/13/10 7:35 AM, Tomas Bodzar wrote: You can try smtpd(8) which is in base. Some people reported that they are using it in production already. At least configuration is much more easier then in sendmail(8) I have been for almost 18 months now. I use it as spam filter and front end for other

Re: MTA choice

2010-08-13 Thread Gregory Edigarov
Yeah, /me for example... handles some 100,000 connects per day, with spam ratio about 3/1...4/1. i.e. some 25,000 deliveries per day. On Fri, 13 Aug 2010 13:35:44 +0200 Tomas Bodzar wrote: > You can try smtpd(8) which is in base. Some people reported that they > are using it in production alread

Re: MTA choice

2010-08-13 Thread Fredrik Henbjork
On 08/13/2010 10:49 AM, Richard Toohey wrote: But as Christer has said, if it's in the OpenBSD base, that should mean something. Just because it's in base doesn't mean that it's the "best" choice. After all, it *could* just mean that noone has had the time and/or energy to replace it with some

Re: MTA choice

2010-08-13 Thread Tomas Bodzar
You can try smtpd(8) which is in base. Some people reported that they are using it in production already. At least configuration is much more easier then in sendmail(8) On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 8:55 AM, wrote: > Hi, > > I want to install a mailserver. > What is the easiest and the most secure sol

Re: MTA choice

2010-08-13 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
Siju George writes: > what about qmail? ;-) huh, hurr, he said qmail -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://bsdly.blogspot.com/ http://www.bsdly.net/ http://www.nuug.no/ "Remember to set the evil bit on all malicious network traffic" delilah spamd[29

Re: MTA choice

2010-08-13 Thread Siju George
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 3:57 PM, Henning Brauer wrote: > * Peter Miller [2010-08-13 10:46]: >> > I only want to know what is better (easiest way, most secure) to use. >> > And have your advice. >> >> He just gave it to you. sendmail. > > I would never use sendmail for anything halfway serious. >

Re: MTA choice

2010-08-13 Thread Robert
On Fri, 13 Aug 2010 10:55:13 +0400 wrote: > I want to install a mailserver. > What is the easiest and the most secure solution ? "It depends" - as mentioned before, you need to specify the environment, mail volume etc. My opinion: *) Since 4.6 OpenBSD ships with its own daemon: "man smtpd". From

Re: MTA choice

2010-08-13 Thread Henning Brauer
* Peter Miller [2010-08-13 10:46]: > > I only want to know what is better (easiest way, most secure) to use. > > And have your advice. > > He just gave it to you. sendmail. I would never use sendmail for anything halfway serious. -- Henning Brauer, h...@bsws.de, henn...@openbsd.org BS Web Serv

Re: MTA choice

2010-08-13 Thread Richard Toohey
On 13/08/2010, at 7:41 PM, open...@e-solutions.re wrote: > I only want to know what is better (easiest way, most secure) to use. > And have your advice. Easiest doesn't necessarily fit with most secure ... or everyone would be using Windows and Macs? You have to understand what you are setting u

Re: MTA choice

2010-08-13 Thread Peter Miller
> I only want to know what is better (easiest way, most secure) to use. > And have your advice. He just gave it to you. sendmail. > > Why do you think OpenBSD ships with (a custom and secure) sendmail by > > default? -- Later Peter

Re: MTA choice

2010-08-13 Thread openbsd
I only want to know what is better (easiest way, most secure) to use. And have your advice. On Fri, 13 Aug 2010 09:04:01 +0200, Christer Solskogen wrote: > On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 8:55 AM, wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I want to install a mailserver. >> What is the easiest and the most secure solution ?

Re: MTA choice

2010-08-13 Thread Christer Solskogen
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 8:55 AM, wrote: > Hi, > > I want to install a mailserver. > What is the easiest and the most secure solution ? > OpenBSD comes with Sendmail. I seen a lot of people use Postfix instead > Sendmail. > Is there someone to advice me about the choice of the MTA ? > Why do you