In general I prefer postfix over sendmail but in your case I would think sendmail would be easier as its already installed and likely will work for sending mail by default from local users such as yours. If you intend to host mail and receive incoming connections from the internet for delivery to your own domain then I would suggest reconsidering which MTA to use. Anyone know the current status of the openbsd MTA at all? That may be a worthy choice as well.
Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile -----Original Message----- From: Michael <[email protected]> Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 15:16:05 To: OpenBSD-Newbie<[email protected]> Subject: sendmail-postfix question My ISP is moving all email accounts to Gmail :( I've about got mutt working with the new gmail setup, but I have a question. I would like to learn either sendmail or postfix for moving my email to/from gmail. Would either one be easier? Here is the scenario: I just log in on my openbsd system as user, but I have two email accounts. One for private email, the other for maillists, etc. I've got fetchmail set up to download for both accts. I have msmtp pretty much set up to send for both accounts, but would like to learn to do the same with either sendmail or postfix. I'm the only person on here and I realize either one is probably overkill for my simple needs. I just want to learn one of them. I've never used postfix and used sendmail one time with help. So, one user, two email accounts, and needing to set one up to handle sending mail with proper From: Having never set either one up by myself and reading about them seems overwhelming at times. Guess the old grey matter is slow in retention nowadays. btw- I do understand about the postfix license and sendmail already being installed ;) I can't buy any books at this time due to being unemployed. Thanks for any info, views. I don't want to start an war, just help in knowing which might be easier! :) _______________________________________________ Openbsd-newbies mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.theapt.org/listinfo/openbsd-newbies _______________________________________________ Openbsd-newbies mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.theapt.org/listinfo/openbsd-newbies
