At 5/16/2005 09:11 AM, Brad Knowles wrote: >At 11:48 PM -0500 2005-05-15, Matt England wrote: > >> Another note: >> >> /usr/lib/sendmail is a qmail executable disguised as sendmail for >> backwards-compatibility. > > Unfortunately for you, qmail was never designed to be a drop-in > replacement for sendmail.
That's not my understanding. I've got /usr/lib/sendmail linked to a qmail gizmo, and it's been working for months now. It says so in the qmail docs. Is there something I'm missing? Also, the Sendmail.py-based Mailman stuff appears to be working with no problems for me (other then the warnings from the Mailman developrs not to use it...which is why I'm in this investigation). -Matt > Postfix is the only MTA that I know of that *was* designed to be > a drop-in replacement for sendmail -- at least, as much as is > possible. If you want to learn more about postfix, I'll be glad to give > you my summary of why it's one of the best MTAs on the planet for use > with mailing list servers, as well as point you at plenty of other > resources that are likely to be useful to you. Yes, this is a viable option. What more can you tell me and/or what references can you give me? I invite you to take conversation "offline" from the list if that's more appropriate? One curiosity: I'm curious if Postfix can support virtual domains as well as qmail can? (Maybe that's hard to answer if one does not know qmail.) When I first looked at Postfix, the seemingly massive amount of script/config-file setup was completely overwhelming to me...or was that exim I was checking out? There was some specific set of reasons why I chose qmail over Postfix, but I can't remember them. The fact that yahoo.com and smtp.com both seem to be qmail-based systems have a large pull with me, though; I get the impression Postfix hasn't been around the block as long as qmail, but that does not mean that it's not stable. Did I just start a postfix-vs-qmail rat hole? (That could probably help me, but it may take away from the list.) -Matt >-- >Brad Knowles, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little >temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." > > -- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), reply of the Pennsylvania > Assembly to the Governor, November 11, 1755 > > SAGE member since 1995. See <http://www.sage.org/> for more info. ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
