Thank-you Peter and Justin Krejci. I think the ISP is having as much trouble as I am!! :) I haven't been getting email from both accounts and haven't been able to connect via web either. Guess it gives me time to do more reading. I joined the postfix maillist. Not even going to pretend to understand sendmail stuff, but perhaps the smtpd is better.
Mike * Peter Hessler <[email protected]> [2010-06-16 08:51:59 +0200]: > Personally, I use postfix on my mailservers (including the one that > hosts this list), however I am very interested in migrating to smtpd > that is included with openbsd 4.6 and later. I would go with -current > (to pick up all of the latest fixes), and experiment there. The primary > reason I haven't migrated to smtpd is lack of (enough) free time. > > > > On 2010 Jun 15 (Tue) at 15:16:05 -0600 (-0600), Michael wrote: > :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 > > -- > Steinbach's Guideline for Systems Programming: > Never test for an error condition you don't know how to > handle. > _______________________________________________ > 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
