Mail servers

[Craig Skinner]

On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 11:14:07PM +0000, Lesley B wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I'm trying to choose a mail server.  
> 
> I was recommended exim but found that it has X dependencies and I was hoping to avoid running X on a server which will be running at least a mail server and apache.
> 
> Does anyone have any suggestions of a well written mail server for OpenBSD that doesn't require X?
> 

Exim is a monolithic daemon that runs as root. If you can live with
that and are learning a mailserver, use sendmail as it is in base.

I use postfix as I have used it in several jobs and know my way around
it.

Sendmail X (version 10) is a copy of the postfix architecture.