What is your preferred email server/service

[Alain De Vos]

What is your preferred email server/service

 

[Cthulhux]

OpenSMTPD & Dovecot

 

[zirias@]

This is apples, oranges AND eggplants.

I prefer the following:

• local MTA on any machine: dma(8), cause it's in base, minimal, simple and functional
• "MX" MTA: mail/exim, cause it's powerful and has simple readable configs (although postfix would probably offer the same, but as I once learned exim, I see no reason to switch...)
• MDA/IMAP: mail/dovecot, cause it just works, offers some efficient mail storage and lots of useful features
• MUA: mail/neomutt, powerful commandline usage, perfect for managing multiple mailboxes with lots of traffic, nice mailing list support.

 

[SirDice]

sendmail is mentioned twice.

 

[zirias@]

sendmail is mentioned twice.

Yeah. And dma(8) is missing. Ok, when asking about kind of "everything around mail", there will always be something missing, but dma is part of base

 

[chrbr]

May be you can remove fetchmail. As far as I know just downloads mail via POP3 or IMAP.

 

[covacat]

sendmail has 2 options so it wins

 

[zirias@]

May be you can remove fetchmail. As far as I know just downloads mail via POP3 or IMAP.

That's what I meant with "eggplants". While "apples" are MTAs and "oranges" are MDAs (offering IMAP and/or POP3 for access).

 

[hruodr]

I am running sendmail with cyrus imap and prayer webmail.

Unfortunately is the last not more developed, unmantained and deprecated:

FreshPorts -- mail/prayer: Prayer Webmail System

Prayer is yet another Webmail interface for IMAP servers on Unix systems. It exists because we weren't terribly happy about the characteristics of existing Webmail interfaces: in particular scalability problems with common open source Webmail packages and the lack of flexibility that commercial...

www.freshports.org

It is very lightweight.