when in doubt; use google mail. :) On 2 November 2013 15:57, Harold Pritchett <harold at uga.edu> wrote: > On 11/2/2013 8:57 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: >> I have two CentOS-6.4 servers, in different places. >> I am running postfix/amavis on one, and sendmail/procmail on the other. >> I don't recall having any difficulty setting up sendmail many years ago >> using sendmail.mc . >> But I found postfix very complicated to setup last year. >> (It's working fine now.) >> >> I recall that when I asked for advice >> one person advised me to read 2 books on postfix, >> and another advised me to pay someone to set it up. >> >> I asked why postfix was preferable, but didn't any convincing reply. >> The general response was along the lines that it was the "modern" way. >> >> Having looked into postfix/amavis a little further, >> it seems to me to involve excessively complicated processes >> (at least for a simple home server) >> with email going along spaghetti-like routes. >> >> Am I alone in this view? > > Not at all. Selection of a mail agent borders on a religious topic. I personally am a devout sendmail admin. I have been running sendmail since I was the sysadmin of a network > of sun4 pizza boxes back in the 1980's. I even met Eric Allman at a USENIX conference once. I've have given sessions on installing and configuring sendmail at national and > international conferences. I once installed sendmail on an IBM Mainframe running Redhat Linux. > > Are there better servers? Probably. According to WIkipedia, the only mail servers with more than 10% of the servers on the internet running them are Sendmail, Microsoft Exchange > Server, Exim and Postfix, but these are hardly the only ones out there. > > In CentOS 6, postfix is the default server. What does that mean? It means that postfix is pre-selected in the anaconda install script. If you want to run something else, and not > have to deal with un-installing postfix and installing your own religion then just un-select postfix and select your own when you do the initial install. You know, check the boxes > saying you want to edit the packages being installed and make the changes before you do the install. > > Let's not get into a religious shouting match here. You know, the my software is better than yours kind of thing. Pick what you are comfortable with and run it. They all do > basically the same thing, just in different ways. > > Harold > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos