[TriLUG] mail server

Chris Hedemark chris at yonderway.com
Mon Oct 14 14:11:50 EDT 2002


On Monday, October 14, 2002, at 12:52 PM, Jeremy Portzer wrote:

> qmail, postfix, and sendmail are three examples of Mail Transport 
> Agents
> (MTAs) -- you would use one or the other, not a combination.  Sendmail
> is the "de facto" MTA and is the default on most Linux distributions.
> Since you're pretty new at this, I personally would NOT recommend using
> a different MTA -- sendmail works just fine for basic needs.

And now for something completely different....

Specifically *because* he is pretty new at this, among other reasons, I 
would recommend *not* using Sendmail and instead using Postfix.  
Sendmail tweaking *is* rocket science.  Postfix is actually pretty 
darned easy to set up.

Chris Hedemark
Professional Computer Consulting & Videography
Hillsborough, NC
http://yonderway.com

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