Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 08:05:48 -0400 From: joel2a@yahoo.com To: David Leimbach <dleimbac@earthlink.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Yanking Sendmail need something easier to understand Message-ID: <4.2.2.20010615075813.02e6e8f0@pop.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20010612073510.A1178@mutt.home.net>
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After spending a few hours researching the subject and judging by their web sites, qmail looks like the better option for "do it yourselfers". There is a lot more support and free documentation on the web for qmail than sendmail or postfix. The Postfix port and package did not install correctly on my freebsd and it looks like there isn't really that much documentation for it from the Postfix web site. Sendmail's web site has a lot of reference to their commercial shop and not much free documentation. I think they have a vested interest in selling the commercial versions now, but that is my opinion. I'm going to try qmail with djbdns! Joel At 07:35 AM 6/12/01 -0500, you wrote: >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 > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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