From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 15 7:56: 1 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fbsd.bosa.ca (cr1003901-a.rct1.bc.wave.home.com [24.113.37.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8F8E37B40A for ; Fri, 15 Jun 2001 07:55:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kulraj@bosa.ca) Received: from ask (h207-230-227-196.dccnet.com [207.230.227.196]) by fbsd.bosa.ca (Postfix) with SMTP id 2FB26158EB9; Fri, 15 Jun 2001 09:04:20 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <00a301c0f5ab$191e4200$c4e3e6cf@kimsamy.com> From: "Kulraj Gurm (bosa.ca Account)" To: "Len Conrad" , Cc: References: <4.2.2.20010615075813.02e6e8f0@pop.mail.yahoo.com> <20010612073510.A1178@mutt.home.net> <4.2.2.20010615102730.02e5dd70@pop.mail.yahoo.com> Subject: Re: Yanking Sendmail need something easier to understand Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 07:54:36 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [snip] I did not see "tons" of doc on the postfix.org site. Sure there are some but not as many as on the qmail.org site. [/snip] Not having played with qmail, I am in a position of weakness in this dicussion. However, I found postfix documentation more than adequate. Maybe its just a simpler system to comprehend and the requirement for the extra volumes of docs/faqs just isn't there. To me that seems a distinct advantage. But thats just my 2c worth. Regards, Kulraj Gurm ----- Original Message ----- From: To: "Len Conrad" Cc: Sent: Friday, June 15, 2001 7:36 AM Subject: Re: Yanking Sendmail need something easier to understand Well ok, but that tells me there's something goofy going on with some of the ports. I installed a brand new fresh freebsd system and installed the Postfix port from the Sysinstall program and it failed! Then I downloaded the latest Postfix .tgz from the FreeBSD.org ftp site and used pkg_add to it and it failed again! Maybe I'll try the compiling from source some other day! I did not see "tons" of doc on the postfix.org site. Sure there are some but not as many as on the qmail.org site. I am a newbie to freebsd and I think extensive documentation from many sources is very important so that's why I will still choose qmail over postfix. Joel At 02:22 PM 6/15/01 +0200, you wrote: >>The Postfix port and package did not install correctly on my freebsd > >compiling from source has never failed for me, on FreeBSD or Linux. > >Use the latest "experimental" snapshot, they´ve always held up perfectly >for me in very heavy production. > >>and it looks like there isn't really that much documentation for it from >>the Postfix web site. > >There´s tons of doc on the web site, plus the man pages, and there is one >Postfix book just out, with an O´Reilly book in the works, and a very >helpful mailing list, including the developer´s participation daily. > >The single postfix config file, complemented by mostly excellent "sane" >defaults, is easy for newbies. > >The contributed pflogsumm log summarizer is an excellent tool for anyone >to stay on top of what´s happening with postfix. > >Len > > >http://MenAndMice.com/DNS-training >http://BIND8NT.MEIway.com : ISC BIND 8.2.4 for NT4 & W2K >http://IMGate.MEIway.com : Build free, hi-perf, anti-abuse mail gateways > > >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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message