On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 07:42:10PM -0400, rblythe wrote: > Anyway, I have not installed these two packages yet (working my way up > to it), but I want to know if installing Postfix may wreck my current > e-mail set-up.
Undoubtedly it _may_ wreck your current mail setup. You haven't really given enough detail for me to understand how your current setup works, but do you actually need postfix ? I've never used thunderbird, but if you are sending mail through comcast's mail server, I imagine thunderbird doesn't need a local mail server. Running postfix is very convenient, particularly if you have multiple machines, but for a single box without a static IP or its own proper domain it may be unnecessary. I run postfix on my desktop boxes and 'server' so that the output of cron jobs (backups, disk checks, etc) all ends up in my mailbox on the server. But as far as outgoing mail is concerned, mine now all goes through my isp's mail server. And I get external mail by pulling it from my isp's POP server with fetchmail. Ken -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
