Hey, Just wanted to let you know that postfix is the greatest thing that ever hap- pened to mail. Setup was incredibly easy (i wasn't good enough to get send- mail working on my server), but postfix was up and *working* in five minutes, without even reading any doc (which could be a bad thing...)
Oh yeah, could someone send me a copy of that letter, it seems that i accidentally deleted it before getting a chance to read... Cameron Matheson On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 12:10:16PM -0400, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, Damon Muller wrote: > > > I've got to say, this is the first 100+ line message I've read on the > > list for ages, and it was worth every prescious second! > > > > We *are* amused :) > > > Thanks. When I'm trying to avoid real work, I can get very inspired. > > > > > <blantant troll> > > Although a real man would have been running qmail and courier-imap... > > </blantant troll> > > > > Actually, that's a valid question. Sendmail, for better or worse, is the > industry standard. Sendmail knowledge has come in quite handy for me on > Solaris etc. Of course it is crufty beyond compare and it remains to be > seen how long they can keep patching up its' basically flawed design but > for now it remains one of the workhorses of the Internet. > > > qmail on the other hand, I've only seen used on Linux and FreeBSD. Also I > don't quite get the point of maildirs. Yes they're supposed to be > "better" but I've not really seen any difference in real life. Plus there > are the annoying license restrictions. One of these days I'll take a good > look at postfix, it seems to be as secure and well-designed but plays more > nicely with others than qmail. Exim, for some reason I've always thought > of as a toy. But my information is probably years out of date. > > > btw, I wish to call to the attention of the readers a little omission in > my story. You also have to add the new domain to /etc/mail/relay-domains. > In the bad old days, sendmail let any mail go through by default thus > allowing spammers unlimited access. Now it does the opposite. It will > refuse to deliver mail that comes from any domain except those listed in > this file. > > > -- > Jaldhar H. Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com