Re: [Sheflug] Re: Virus Checking

[Alec Melling <melling [at] xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 11 July 2003 16:43, Richard Ibbotson wrote:
> Alec
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> > I thought that if I went the rout you suggest I would setup sendmail as
> > well. I don't want to use sendmail
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> No, you can do postfix with it as well.  Honest :)  Done it that way
> myself quite a few times.
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> Richard
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OK, but apart from having the virus scanner setup what advantages are there to 
using postfix?

In other words what does postfix, or sendmail, do? I am one workstation, the 
only networking I do or need to do is transfer files to my laptop.

What advantage is there in using postfix for me?
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Alec Melling
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