From: Ron Loftin Sent: September 2, 2009 11:48 > On Wed, 2009-09-02 at 11:38 -0700, Hugh E Cruickshank wrote: > > From: Christopher Chan Sent: September 1, 2009 23:04 > > > > > > I cannot believe the file is dated 2004. Ah well, I got rid of > > > sendmail and replaced it with postfix in 2003 while I was still a > > > mail admin. I must bow to the real sendmail bigots. > > > > Mail administration is just one of those "little" jobs that I am > > responsible for and I just have not had the time to review/learn a > > new MTA so I muddle on with the "devil I know". > > I'm certainly not going to throw stones at this philosophy, but I will > suggest that you reconsider in this case. I'm not really a mail guru, > or even that much of a mail admin, but I switched to Postfix about 3 > years ago, and I have to say that the learning curve is a LOT less > challenging than Sendmail ever was for me. I became "productive" with > Postfix in less than a week, mostly because the documentation is a lot > better, as well as the config files are readable by the average > computer-literate humanoid. I suggest that you give it some thought. I will definitely consider it. The main problem I have is time. We are a small company and I am stretched very thin to cover a lot of tasks. Trying to carve out a week to learn a new MTA will be difficult but I will definitely consider it. Thanks for your comments. Regards, Hugh -- Hugh E Cruickshank, Forward Software, www.forward-software.com