When most people install a free software mail transport agent (MTA) they plumb for Postfix, Exim, qmail or Sendmail. Whilst these are all fine, they can be a little over the top for some smaller systems or systems where all you need is some kind of local MTA functionality. In these cases many people will install their favourite MTA anyway - but there are more lightweight alternatives.
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Mail server benchmarking with Postal
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The Postal project includes three programs aimed at benchmarking mail server performance. The main program, postal, sends email messages to a specified list of destination addresses at a specified rate. Postal can let you see how fast your system can process incoming email and thus can help you measure improvements to your mail server when you are making software and hardware changes.
Read more »Setting up a FreeBSD File and Fetching Mail Server
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At some point in your life you may find yourself in a situation where you are in need of either control of your own mail server, or a file server where you can host files for the whole family, or share them with ease. This tutorial will teach you how to setup both a file and a mail server on the same machine at the same time.
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