Subject: Re: Sendmail help
From: Brian Watson (bcwatso1@uiuc.edu)
Date: Sun Aug 12 2001 - 19:44:57 MDT
Actually, I gave up on snapshot after the compiler wasn't working too
well... :(
I did get sendmail configured, though... send me some mail:
webmaster@majuki.com :)
--Brian
>Ive been following along on this exchange. I throught the ftp and the cd
>snapshot-20010808 and when I issued "make" I got "bash: make: command not
>found"
>
>Where do I go from this point?
>
>I have a Blue G3 running YD2.
>
>Thank You.
>Don
>
>On Saturday 11 August 2001 03:41, you wrote:
>> 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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