[CentOS] Postfix vs Sendmail

2013-11-02 Thread Timothy Murphy
I have two CentOS-6.4 servers, in different places. I am running postfix/amavis on one, and sendmail/procmail on the other. I don't recall having any difficulty setting up sendmail many years ago using sendmail.mc . But I found postfix very complicated to setup last year. (It's working fine now.)

Re: [CentOS] Postfix vs Sendmail

2013-11-02 Thread Andrew Holway
I think "sane" people use exim nowadays. On 2 November 2013 12:57, Timothy Murphy wrote: > I have two CentOS-6.4 servers, in different places. > I am running postfix/amavis on one, and sendmail/procmail on the other. > I don't recall having any difficulty setting up sendmail many years ago > usin

Re: [CentOS] Postfix vs Sendmail

2013-11-02 Thread Ned Slider
On 02/11/13 12:57, Timothy Murphy wrote: > I have two CentOS-6.4 servers, in different places. > I am running postfix/amavis on one, and sendmail/procmail on the other. > I don't recall having any difficulty setting up sendmail many years ago > using sendmail.mc . > But I found postfix very complic

Re: [CentOS] Postfix vs Sendmail

2013-11-02 Thread Les Mikesell
On Sat, Nov 2, 2013 at 7:57 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > > I asked why postfix was preferable, but didn't any convincing reply. > The general response was along the lines that it was the "modern" way. Sendmail was written back in the days of wooden computers and iron programmers and uses a macro l

Re: [CentOS] Postfix vs Sendmail

2013-11-02 Thread Harold Pritchett
On 11/2/2013 8:57 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > I have two CentOS-6.4 servers, in different places. > I am running postfix/amavis on one, and sendmail/procmail on the other. > I don't recall having any difficulty setting up sendmail many years ago > using sendmail.mc . > But I found postfix very comp

Re: [CentOS] Postfix vs Sendmail

2013-11-02 Thread Andrew Holway
when in doubt; use google mail. :) On 2 November 2013 15:57, Harold Pritchett wrote: > On 11/2/2013 8:57 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: >> I have two CentOS-6.4 servers, in different places. >> I am running postfix/amavis on one, and sendmail/procmail on the other. >> I don't recall having any difficu

Re: [CentOS] Postfix vs Sendmail

2013-11-02 Thread Luigi Rosa
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Timothy Murphy said the following on 02/11/2013 13:57: > Having looked into postfix/amavis a little further, it seems to me to > involve excessively complicated processes (at least for a simple home > server) with email going along spaghetti-like rout

Re: [CentOS] Postfix vs Sendmail

2013-11-02 Thread Fred Smith
On Sat, Nov 02, 2013 at 10:41:53AM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Sat, Nov 2, 2013 at 7:57 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > > > > I asked why postfix was preferable, but didn't any convincing reply. > > The general response was along the lines that it was the "modern" way. > > Sendmail was written ba

Re: [CentOS] Postfix vs Sendmail

2013-11-02 Thread Stephen Harris
On Sat, Nov 02, 2013 at 01:58:33PM -0400, Fred Smith wrote: > I've accumulated a set of rules for the sendmail.mc file that do what sendmail.mc ? Back in the day all we had (SunOS 4) was the cf files that we had to mangle by hand :-) -- rgds Stephen

Re: [CentOS] Postfix vs Sendmail

2013-11-02 Thread John R Pierce
On 11/2/2013 1:43 PM, Stephen Harris wrote: > sendmail.mc ? Back in the day all we had (SunOS 4) was the cf files > that we had to mangle by hand now that was some truly scary stuff.the .mc/m4 macro stuff was a latecomer. -- john r pierce 37N 122W somew

Re: [CentOS] Postfix vs Sendmail

2013-11-02 Thread Fred Smith
On Sat, Nov 02, 2013 at 04:43:59PM -0400, Stephen Harris wrote: > On Sat, Nov 02, 2013 at 01:58:33PM -0400, Fred Smith wrote: > > I've accumulated a set of rules for the sendmail.mc file that do what > > sendmail.mc ? Back in the day all we had (SunOS 4) was the cf files > that we had to mangle b

Re: [CentOS] Postfix vs Sendmail

2013-11-03 Thread David G . Miller
Harold Pritchett writes: > > On 11/2/2013 8:57 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > > I have two CentOS-6.4 servers, in different places. > > I am running postfix/amavis on one, and sendmail/procmail on the other. > > I don't recall having any difficulty setting up sendmail many years ago > > using sendm