Hi,
This may or may not be a question for SuSE users. Presently, I believe that Sendmail is running by default on a SuSE 7.0 box. Now I have for the past year heard more and more suggestions, that it is better to be running Postfix or Qmail instead. If this is so, I'm thinking of running Postfix. My reasoning is from numerous posts, Postfix is said to be easy to work with and secure.
If I uninstall Sendmail what will get broken on my SuSE 7.0? What should I be look for in advance to make sure there is a smooth transition.
Just one additional note, this is not a network but a standalone machine, if that should matter.
Postfix on Suse works very well, and in your case it will probably work "out the box". I cannot recommend it highly enough. Life is really too short to face the struggle with sendmail. Strictly speaking it has never got out of Beta release yet, but since the release which you find on Suse's distro it has proved to be as solid as a rock. It officially comes out of Beta in february sometime.. There is one small glitch in the installation. Postfix runs in a chroot jail which means the installation makes copies into the jail of certain important files. This does not work properly for the timezone settings so you may see some Postfix processes reporting the time incorrectly. There is an updated Linux script for this, but in the meantime what I did was: In postfix's jail remove the file localtime (I think that is what it is called). Copy the timezone file for your timezone into the jail. Make a symbolic link to the timezone file called "localtime" in the jail. And voila! Postfix warns you if it's copies of any of the system files it has copies of are out of sync with the "real" ones. Go for it ! Cliff