Sendmail vs. Postfix...

[Jett Tayer]

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
>
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