On Fri, Sep 20, 2019 at 02:49:36PM +0200, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > Am 2019-09-20 12:06, schrieb Randal, Phil: > >When I migrated our mx boxes from CentOS 5 to 7 I made the leap to > >postfix. > > > >I built a test server with postfix etc on it and threw everything I > >could think of at it before going live. > > > >The key is, like in learning a new language, to start thinking in > >postfix terms instead of thinking in sendmail terms. > > Exactly, I was about to answer the same. > > Postfix has a lot of features build-in Sendmail hasn't. It is > feature rich and actively developed. Many things you would need a > milter or complex cf style coding for with Sendmail you can > configure in Postfix in a simple way. > > >It takes a while to 'get it' but I'm glad we made the link. > > > >We search, read as many people's howtos as you can (caveat - they are > >rarely 100% accurate), and test, test, test before going into > >production. > > Please, forget about so call howtos or tutorials on the net. They > are either dated, giving wrong ideas (no, you don't need a MySQL > server to run Postfix), failing to explain why the author has done > things the way he writes them up, or they are simply wrong / > violating best practice. > > Postfix has a very good documentation (compared to the one shipping > with Sendmail). > > http://www.postfix.org/documentation.html > > http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html > > >Cheers, > > > >Phil > > Alexander Thanks to both of you: I'll be pursuing those docs. Fred -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Under no circumstances will I ever purchase anything offered to me as the result of an unsolicited e-mail message. Nor will I forward chain letters, petitions, mass mailings, or virus warnings to large numbers of others. This is my contribution to the survival of the online community. --Roger Ebert, December, 1996 ----------------------------- The Boulder Pledge -----------------------------