The documentation would be the O'Reilly sendmail book, which is like a huge volume. Installing and configuring sendmail is not something one does quickly, it's too complicated. If you're under a "time crunch" don't even make the attempt.
Michael Martinez > -----Original Message----- > From: Dirk Dettmering [mailto:redhat-ml@;dettmering.org] > Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 7:42 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Running Repair installation on 7.1 > > > > Hy, > > Jeremy Cardon wrote: > > I need to set up sendmail, and am having a hard time finding any > > documentation. I am under a heavy time crunch on this. > Any help would be > > appreciated. > > My advice: If you don't know how to configure sendmail then don't try > to get sendmail running but install postfix instead. Postfix is really > easy to configure. Normally you only need to adjust 3 to 5 parameters > in the /etc/postfix/main.cf for the basic functions. And this > configuration file is really well documented. Every parameter has > several lines of detailed comments in front of it. Nearly every friend > of mine has switched to postfix in the meantime and all are really > happy with it. And postfix is also really powerfull in fighting > against spam (keywords: RBL, header and body checks, tarpit). Postfix > is also faster than sendmail and is one of the recommendet > replacements for sendmail id you have high traffix mailing lists and > sendmail isn't fast enough. Another advantage, you can chroot postfix > very easily it's actually the default if you install the postfix RPMs > from Simon Mudd: http://www.WL0.org/~sjmudd/postfix/. > I used sendmail over nearly 5 years on several mail servers and had a > couple of times severe trouble with sendmail. But now I'm totally > happy with postfix and will never touch sendmail again apart from > deinstalling it everywhere I find it. ;-) > > Yust my 2 Euro-Cent > > Dirk > > P.S.: Please open up a new thread or at least change the subject line > accordingly! > > > > _______________________________________________ > Seawolf-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/seawolf-list > _______________________________________________ Seawolf-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/seawolf-list
