Take a look at exim.

  /usr/pkgsrc/mail/exim
  www.exim.org

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On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, Richard Rauch wrote:

> Okay, I think that I will consider my static IP situation sorted for now.
> Thanks to all who lent me their eyeballs and neural activity.  (^&
>
>
> Now I'm looking at setting up email.  Looking around at NetBSD FAQ's,
> sendmail seems to be the only one discussed.  However, a few years ago,
> postfix was put in the NetBSD distribution for "evaluation".  It's still
> in there, so I might give that a whirl.  Or, maybe something from
> pkgsrc..?
>
> I'm looking for advice.  I *have* set up sendmail before, but I never
> grokked sendmail.cf.  I don't have a big site to configure and would be
> content with a fairly small server that provides the following features:
>
>  * Delivers email to local users.  (^&
>
>  * Defaults to conservative behavior (e.g., when I last had sendmail
>    up, I think that it defaulted to being an open relay---*not* the
>    kind of philosophy I want in a default config for a mail server
>    that's on the Internet; though I might prefer it in a secure,
>    private network...  (^&).
>
>  * Robust/simple.
>
>  * Some facility for dropping in scripts (per-user or site-wide---almost
>    the same thing in my case) to filter mail in some way.
>
>
> The ideal would be to throw an rc.conf switch to turn on one of sendmail
> or postfix and have it all just come to life.  But if it involves much
> review and customization to get basic delivery to function safely, maybe I
> should look at pkgsrc.  Especially if getting a safe,
> non-a-spammer's-paradise server up requires dealing with sendmail.cf
> (say), I'd rather avoid sendmail.  (^&
>
>
> Also, on the topic: What's the future for postfix as part of the NetBSD
> distribution?  I didn't think that it was intended to have 2 mailers ship
> with NetBSD "forever".  Has that changed, or is postfix still being
> evaulated?  Or is there a thought to eventually remove either postfix or
> sendmail from the distribution?
>
>
>   ``I probably don't know what I'm talking about.'' --rauch@math.rice.edu
>
>