Re-building sendmail

Bob Collins bob at anything-inc.com
Fri Jun 27 08:28:19 PDT 2003


At 11:16 AM 6/27/2003, Jonathan Arnold wrote:
>>For an excellent fix for sendmail see:
>>         http://www.postfix.org/
>
>I'm actually thinking of going this route. Is the migration
>that difficult? Any special gotchas for someone who has been
>using the default sendmail stuff in FreeBSD?
>
>--
>Jonathan Arnold     (mailto:jdarnold at buddydog.org)
>Amazing Developments       http://www.buddydog.org
>
>It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble.
>It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.  Mark Twain


I have used Postfix on both FreeBSD and Solaris. No worries and quite easy 
to set up. There is suppose to be better security in postfix than sendmail. 
Also should be rather easy to configure in comparison. I think you will 
like it.

I have never migrated, so I cannot offer any comments.

--Bob 



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