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 others.
I do not have users n that box, not that it couldn't I guess. I never tried to make it so.
It's risky, yes, but you don't make an omelet without breaking eggs! I ran into some issue time to time before, all in misc@ if you want to see it. But I must say in general, it's been very good for me. I upgrade it to the latest time to time when I see Gilles dong lots of commit to it. I run two of them, so if one goes south, I can switch to a second one real quick, but so far, it never happened to me to have big issues. The only one I had was the virtual domain hosting that just didn't work as explain in the man page and Gilles did work on it.
If you want something simple, that's it. For a small server, I sure would go with it. But keep in mind it's not fully announce yet as ready for production, however, like the project, it's announcing productions things when they are rock solid. That doesn't mean smtpd is not, so if you run it, you help testing it and if you ran into issues, so far they all have been corrected pretty darn fast!
So, do as you see fit, but if you are not scare of running bleeding edge new OpenBSD stuff, go for it and you will have fun as long as you are not scare to get your hand in it and do your own research when/if needed. Not that it required lots of hand holding so far.
But it deserved more credit then Gilles is welling to give it! (;> I would say he is very conservative, just like everyone else in the project. They give you the best, so enjoy it!
I sure would give it a run for good, I did for a long time so far and I have no complains for how I use it so far!
YMMV. Daniel
