Re: install-sendmail-6.0 script

[Rafael Skodlar <raffi@linwin.com>]

I assume you are using RedHat distribution, 7.x or later. Postfix is
already there. You just need to configure files under /etc/postfix.
Config files are human readable and editable so you should not have too
many problems. I used postfix only once so far so you better seek help
elsewhere.

My experience with Exim is better. For generic email services you do not
need to do much. It's virtual servers and other special needs when you
have to dig deep into documentation and support groups. Sendmail is
often linked to Exim since it takes the same command line options. Exim
provides much better troubleshooting tools to test the setup so it's
worth checking out.

On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 07:08:02AM -0400, jude dashiell wrote:
> That's strange, actually I have postfix installed over here and it's
> running.  Guess what else it installed, a sendmail front-end.  I didn't
> necessarily want that sendmail front-end, but install-sendmail-6.0 was
> able to take advantage of it anyway.  So, the question is, how to build
> postfix and have it completely replace sendmail.  On a related question,
> why doesn't the antispam keyword work as documented in fetchmail for the
> .fetchmailrc file?  man fetchmail has it as -Z | --antispam 554.  Is this
> only a command line option?On Wed, 28 May 2003, Rafael Skodlar wrote:
> 
> > Sendmail is one of few things in Unix that should be gone long time ago.
> > There are superior replcements for it and people should seriously look
> > into them. Exim from http://www.exim.org and Postfix. Unless you are
> > running old system with special additions or modifications and Sendmail
> > there is no reason to torture yourself with editing silly Sendmail
> > configuration file or use another obscure format, macros, for it.
> >
> > On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 10:11:04PM -0400, jude dashiell wrote:
> > > I found a perl script that helps users install and configure sendmail and
> > > fetchmail.  It needs at least sendmail 8.9.x to work and both sendmail and
> > > fetchmail ned to be installed.  All the stuff that normally gets done by
> > > hand especially with sendmail is turned into basic questions and answers.
> > > The script is also multilingual too.  donncha@linux.ie wrote it too.
> >
> >

-- 
Rafael