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From: "Kulraj Gurm (bosa.ca Account)" <kulraj@bosa.ca>
To: "David Leimbach" <dleimbac@earthlink.net>,
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Subject: Re: Yanking Sendmail need something easier to understand
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[snip]
> Does anyone know of any other program that can do the following:
>
> 1) Map local user names to my ISP email address.
> dave@localhost   dleimbac@earthlink.net
[/snip]

Postfix would be my MTA of choice; but both postfix and sendmail have pretty
much the same concept of virtual user tables - and thats all you need to
setup the above.

Regards,

Kulraj Gurm





----- Original Message -----
From: "David Leimbach" <dleimbac@earthlink.net>
To: <questions@freebsd.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2001 5:35 AM
Subject: Yanking Sendmail need something easier to understand


> I would like to rid myself of the really difficult to understand sendmail.
>
>
> Does anyone know of any other program that can do the following:
>
> 1) Map local user names to my ISP email address.
> dave@localhost   dleimbac@earthlink.net
>
> 2) Work with procmail as a delivery agent. [filters]
> 3) Relay my outgoing mail to an external SMTP server.
>
>
> I like the fact that sendmail does all of these things but it is
> ridiculously hard to understand what the configuration files mean.
>
> I have the current setup where I have to run a cron job to get
> my outgoing mail delivered by doing sendmail -q.
>
> Its really irritating...  If there is a major upgrade to sendmail
> I won't be able to re-configure it! :)
>
> I used the install-sendmail Perl script I found on freshmeat.net to
> get it configured as it is now...  Unfortunately I have no clue what it
> did.
>
>
> Dave
>
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