Sendmail vs. Postfix...

Guy Van Sanden n.b at myrealbox.com
Sat Sep 27 06:41:30 PDT 2003


I'm sorry, it wasn't for me.
I installed postfix from ports and stopped sendmail, postfix still didn't start though (it had port 25 open, but didn't respond to it).
Eventually I reverted to sendmail.

I'm on FreeBSD 5.0 BTW.

I do have postfix running fine on Linux, I might add.

On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 21:43, synrat wrote:
> what do you mean postfix is hard to setup ?
> It's fully functional after the installation, you can send e-mail
> right away
> and you only need a few changes to main.cf to accept e-mail.
> The file is very well commented, save the changes, and run
> 'postfix reload' as root.
> 
> On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Payne wrote:
> 
> > Hey,
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > Chuck
> >
> >
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