Arun Khan wrote:
I recently, perhaps foolishly, changed over a remote server from sendmail/procmail to postfix/amavis/spamassassin/clamd , and I'm finding it difficult to configure this setup.
It would have been helpful, if you had described briefly what was your sendmail setup e.g. relaying mail through smart host, authenticating local users before allowing relay etc.
As I recall - I set up sendmail on my 2 servers many years ago - I did nothing beyond changing the SMART_HOST setting in sendmail.mc.
Actually, I now have postfix/amavis/clamd/spamassassin working fine. But the setup was several orders of magnitude more complicated than setting up sendmail/procmail/spamassassin .
This is confirmed in my mind by the suggestions I received - someone specified 2 books on Postfix I should read, someone else advised me to pay someone to set it up.
Obviously the postfix.org documentation is not directed at those - like me - trying to set up a simple home-network.