Re: Sendmail help

Subject: Re: Sendmail help
From: Darron Froese (darron@froese.org)
Date: Sat Aug 11 2001 - 16:41:57 MDT

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On 8/11/01 4:15 PM, "Brian Watson" <bcwatso1@uiuc.edu> wrote:

> What do you recommend to use as an SMTP server? I want something
> that's I can configure and maintain without much hassle. Sendmail
> doesn't seem very good.

Postfix is generally pretty easy to maintain and configure. I've been using
it on several YDL, Mandrake and RedHat boxes now for about 2+ years without
issues.

<http://www.postfix.org/>

It's Sendmail compatible enough to work with other software without any
modifications but has human readable/configurable configuration files.

Source is available here:

<ftp://postfix.rootr.net/experimental/snapshot-20010808.tar.gz>

To download and compile:

wget ftp://postfix.rootr.net/experimental/snapshot-20010808.tar.gz
tar -zxvf snapshot-20010808.tar.gz
cd snapshot-20010808
make
su
/usr/sbin/adduser -d /var/spool/postfix -M postfix
make install <- you can safely just use the defaults and hit enter
vi|pico|emacs /etc/postfix/main.cf
/usr/sbin/postfix start

It compiles, installs and runs just fine on my YDL 2.0 box - I just followed
my own instructions and did it to make sure it was all correct.

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