From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 24 18:47:03 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D14B16A4B3 for ; Wed, 24 Sep 2003 18:47:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from www.angdatingdaan.org (angdatingdaan.org [202.147.34.75]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 98FE64400D for ; Wed, 24 Sep 2003 18:46:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jett@sycorax.ath.cx) Received: (qmail 26977 invoked by uid 89); 25 Sep 2003 09:46:57 +0800 Received: from 203.190.72.108 (SquirrelMail authenticated user jett@sycorax.ath.cx) by mail.angdatingdaan.org with HTTP; Thu, 25 Sep 2003 09:46:57 +0800 (PHT) Message-ID: <35626.203.190.72.108.1064454417.squirrel@mail.angdatingdaan.org> In-Reply-To: <001a01c382d8$3283c870$f4f0a8c0@pcmedx.com> References: <3F71DC3A.2090900@magidesign.com> <001a01c382d8$3283c870$f4f0a8c0@pcmedx.com> Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 09:46:57 +0800 (PHT) From: "Jett Tayer" To: "Mike Maltese" User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sendmail vs. Postfix... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 01:47:03 -0000 if ur a conservative unix admin, go with sendmail, but for "easiness" use postfix. i have 2 mailservers and is using postfix in one and sendmail on the other. \jett >> Quick question. How hard is it to set up Postfix. I am getting tried of >> Sendmail. Is it hard to set up Postfix to access passwords so that the >> only mail can be sent. > > I've been running Postfix after migrating from Sendmail for the better > part > of a year now. I found it much easier to set up in the areas of virtual > hosts, authentication, relaying and content filtering. I'd suggest > starting > with the Postfix documentation at www.postfix.org. You will also find > several helpful README's in the source distribution, just 'cd > /usr/ports/mail/postfix && make extract' and you can browse through them > before you decide to build and install it. You might also consider joining > the Postfix mailing list, as it's a better place for questions on Postfix > than this list. I'll warn you in advance though, RTFM, because they can be > a > bit hostile if you appear not to have. > > Mike > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >