On Mon, 2012-12-03 at 02:22 +0000, Phil Dobbin wrote:
On 12/03/2012 01:54 AM, John R Pierce wrote:
On 12/2/2012 5:47 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
If you don't like things that use traditional unix tools for the purposes they were designed, why are you interested in using linux at all? From a user perspective making a few changes to sendmail.mc and restarting the sendmail service is quite easy.
I once knew my way around the 'rules' in the .cf file. thats truly some evil arcane magic in there.
Whilst bowing in due deference to people who've been using *nix/Linux since it required a piece of string, two tin cans & coven in order to achieve results, I was under the impression that nowadays, unless you actually need some functionality that sendmail has & nothing else possesses, the received wisdom for novices when setting up all things mail was using postfix in its place.
All documentation I've ever read regarding postfix starts with declaration that postfix is a replacement for sendmail, it's widely recommended as a replacement & having used postfix after attempting to use sendmail, I can see why (I too have Eric Allman's big book & also have read anecdotes written by Brian Kernighan on its origins & very interesting & enlightening they are too). But surely, the effort required to be competent enough to use it properly far outweighs the benefits just for the casual user.
+1 - and really a lot more.
Having lived in the Unix/Linux environment for > 20 years I will definitely state that for someone new to the mail server environment the learning curve for Postfix is a lot less than it is for Sendmail. When I needed to set up a mail filter/server I was pointed to Postfix by another Unix guy and that was probably the best thing that happened to me for that area. I had what I needed in less than a day, and refinements and tuning done a couple of days later.
If you're just starting in the mail server area, it's tough to beat Postfix for ease of configuration.
Cheers,
Phil...
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