On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, b stephen harding wrote: ->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. -> It's been a while since I installed and SuSE, but if I remember correctly, just use yast. Delete sendmail and yast should give you a warning and ask you to choose one of several. Just choose postfix. BTW.... SuSE 7.0 was the only system I could NOT get sendmail to work. I always installed postfix. Worked great right "out of the box" w/o any tweaking. -- Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com Debian GNU/Linux 2.2_r2 & FreeBSD 4.2 RELEASE