Re: [Sheflug] poop and double poop - or howto setup a mailserver?

[Neil R Porter <n.r.porter [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 12:43, Steve Tickle wrote:
> At 12:36 28/10/02 +0000, you wrote:
> >The mail archive seems to be down at the moment. I think it was in this 
> >thread that last week, someone suggested a secure and easily configurable 
> >alternative to qmail and sendmail. It was an MTA that I personally had 
> >never heard of before.
> >
> >Could someone please remind me as it looks like I may soon be setting up 
> >my first mailserver.
> 
> I know it's the ultimate in sadness, replying to one's own posts but my 
> memory is trying to tell me the MTA I'm thinking of could be postfix. Can 
> anyone confirm and likewise, would anyone like to propose the relative 
> merits and de-merits to a relative newcomer to Linux and mailservers?

Postfix.  I have known for a while that it's the choice many make over
Sendmail, and I've read why a few times but can't recall off the top of
my head.  Stuff about running as root and being harder to configure
spring to mind.

I just did a search on google.  Came across this.  Perhaps you could
take a look yourself too if you're really interested.

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/postfix/2001-03/0341.html

HTH

Neil

PS I've had no problems running either sendmail or postfix so I have no
personal experience to fall back on.

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