[TriLUG] mail server

Joseph Tate jtate at dragonstrider.com
Mon Oct 14 14:22:52 EDT 2002


I agree.  Plus it has examples for just about every configuration you'd 
want in the samples directory.  Just cut and paste.

Joseph

Chris Hedemark wrote:

>
> 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
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