Sendmail

[Greg Golin]

Nick wrote: "Postfix is much smarter than sendmail and will work out
of the bag for most things, and it's way easier than sendmail to
configure if you want to."

In my opinion Nick is absolutely right.

Greg



On 4/21/06, Lunt, Nick <Nick.Lunt at wesleyan.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi Roger,
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Roger [mailto:roger at mirasol.co.za]
> > Sent: 20 April 2006 16:57
> > To: dbrett at tcn.net
> > Cc: Red Hat
> > Subject: Re: Sendmail
> >
> >
> > I have tried changing the resolv.conf file to make sure that it points
> > to my IP Address, sendmail works but is rather slow, it takes
> > 5 mins to
> > try and send a message.
> >
>
> you've been given advice on amending sendmail.mc and it's good advice.
> However as much as I hate it when people say things such as "Dont use telnet ... use ssh" in this instance
> I thoroughly recommend you move from sendmail to postfix if you can.
>
> Postfix is much smarter than sendmail and will work out of the bag for most things, and it's way easier than sendmail to configure if you want to.
>
> Just all IMHO, tell me to get stuffed if you like ;)
>
> Nick .
>
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