On Jul 29, George Bonser wrote:
If you have one system that is your all-around linux box, I would suggest
that you go with cnews.
Is this really necessary? If you have only little news traffic, you should
consider the leafnode package. It is a zero-admin news server... easy to
configure, and
On Thu, 31 Jul 1997, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
Is this really necessary? If you have only little news traffic, you should
consider the leafnode package. It is a zero-admin news server... easy to
configure, and very small.
I would suggest newsX in that case instead of leafnode but cnews allows
George Bonser writes:
...cnews allows you to easilly spool a few groups to a neighbor via UUCP.
I also find it to require zero administration.
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jghasler == jghasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
jghasler Perhaps someone who has gotten into sendmail could write a
jghasler sendmail.cf generator? I know about m4. It helps, but not
jghasler enough.
Actually this is precisely what Debian's sendmailconfig is supposed
to do, at least for the
On Wed, Jul 30, 1997 at 11:48:25AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: Manoj Srivastava writes:
: Hacking sendmail.cf is a mindset. Once you get into it (lord help me,
: I've been there), there is an elegant simplicity about the rules.
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: Perhaps someone who has gotten into sendmail could write
On Tue, 29 Jul 1997, Jason Costomiris wrote:
The problem with smail is that you are vulnerable to being used as a
spam relay.
Unles you put something like Blackmail ( ftp.bitgate.com) in front of it.
With sendmail, qmail or exim, I can turn that off. Here's
a sample sendmail .mc
Hi,
George == George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
George All that gibberish that you posted concerning rulesets is one
George of the main reasons that I trashed sendmail after using for
George about a year.
George If I had a smtp only site, I would use exim. The relay policy
George is very
You sound just like my wife, bless her heart. She advances
equally cogent (near identical, in fact) arguments detailing to me
exactly why Microsoft operating sytems are so much, much better than
the garbage that Unix puts out.
Now, now. I was not talking about being brain dead,
Jason Costomiris writes:
On Tue, Jul 29, 1997 at 08:52:47AM -0700, George Bonser wrote:
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: I use smail. It is a lot easier to get configured than sendmail and there
: have been fewer security problems with it. If you have a small site, run
: it out of inetd and use your hosts.allow and
Hi,
George == George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
You sound just like my wife, bless her heart. She advances equally
cogent (near identical, in fact) arguments detailing to me exactly
why Microsoft operating sytems are so much, much better than the
garbage that Unix puts out.
George Now,
On Jul 29, Bruno O. M. Simoes wrote
I'm installing a linux box as mail server, and would like to know what is
the better MTA to use.
I'm thinking about smail, but I guess sendmail is most popular.
Anyway, I don't discard another mta, since it's realy good.
I use exim and have been happy with
On Jul 29, George Bonser wrote
If you have one system that is your all-around linux box, I would suggest
that you go with cnews. If you are setting up a dedicated news machine,
use INN and load it with as much RAM as you can afford plus a little more.
From inn's description:
INN is
Manoj Srivastava writes:
Hacking sendmail.cf is a mindset. Once you get into it (lord help me,
I've been there), there is an elegant simplicity about the rules.
Perhaps someone who has gotten into sendmail could write a sendmail.cf
generator? I know about m4. It helps, but not enough.
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On Tue, 29 Jul 1997, Adrian Bridgett wrote:
I have just installed my own newsserver running inn. Why is cnews better?
Less resource hungry? Easier to setup?
It is MUCH less resource hungry for a small site that must have its
systems wear many hats. I use cnews+nntpd+msgidd (msgidd comes with
Hi
I'm installing a linux box as mail server, and would like to know what is
the better MTA to use.
I'm thinking about smail, but I guess sendmail is most popular.
Anyway, I don't discard another mta, since it's realy good.
Do you have any sugestion?
thank you
Bruno
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On Jul 29, Bruno O. M. Simoes wrote
I'm installing a linux box as mail server, and would like to know what is
the better MTA to use.
I'm thinking about smail, but I guess sendmail is most popular.
Anyway, I don't discard another mta, since it's realy good.
Do you have any sugestion?
Using
Hi Joey
Using Debian GNU/Linux you are able to use some different MTAs.
I know this...
You shoul depend your decision which one to use on you personal
experiences and your needs.
You're right.
The question 'which is the better mta' can't be answered.
It's the same as with 'is emacs better than
On Jul 29, Bruno O. M. Simoes wrote
If you're not familiar with any mta it would be a good idea
to install one and try to configure it. If you fail, purge
it and install the next one. You'll find the mta you like
best.
So my question is wich is the most used, principally because I want to
If you have one system that is your all-around linux box, I would suggest
that you go with cnews. If you are setting up a dedicated news machine,
use INN and load it with as much RAM as you can afford plus a little more.
On Tue, 29 Jul 1997, Bruno O. M. Simoes wrote:
Hi
As I asked before,
I use smail. It is a lot easier to get configured than sendmail and there
have been fewer security problems with it. If you have a small site, run
it out of inetd and use your hosts.allow and hosts.deny to manage access
if you are connected to the net full time.
On Tue, 29 Jul 1997, Bruno O.
On Tue, Jul 29, 1997 at 12:03:15PM -0300, Bruno O. M. Simoes wrote:
: So my question is wich is the most used, principally because I want to have
: a good support, anyway. I would take some like exim that must to be good,
: but a small people know it.
Sendmail is definitely the most popular/best
On Tue, Jul 29, 1997 at 08:52:47AM -0700, George Bonser wrote:
:
: I use smail. It is a lot easier to get configured than sendmail and there
: have been fewer security problems with it. If you have a small site, run
: it out of inetd and use your hosts.allow and hosts.deny to manage access
: if
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