From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 9 19:13:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7F1CE37B401 for ; Fri, 9 Feb 2001 19:13:35 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 23158 invoked by uid 100); 10 Feb 2001 03:13:34 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14980.45534.861194.73366@guru.mired.org> Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2001 21:13:34 -0600 (CST) To: "[gill]" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sendmail -> qmail questions In-Reply-To: <81638171@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [gill] types: > yeah, i'm on that list and I am installing qmail on my mailserver. I am > looking for opinions on what I should do with the mail agents on the other > machines who will deliver occasional messages to the qmail box for > relaying/delivery. If they're up, working, and not exposed to the outside world, just leave them be. Once you're familiar with qmail, change your default install to be qmail instead of sendmail so they'll attrite away. - ->> I am installing qmail on my mailserver and I have questions about what I > - ->> should do on the other boxes in the network. The other servers will send > - ->> mail to root every night > > - ->The local boxes on your network - if all they are doing is running > - ->sendmail for local deliveries and not relaying, it probably isn't > - ->worth the time to convert. As for your mailservers, I'd always > - ->recommend qmail over sendmail. > > - --gill > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -- Mike Meyer http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message