Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2000 20:54:56 -0500 From: Corvin Russell <corvinr@sympatico.ca> Message-ID: <20001203205456.B7027@raven.unknowing.org> Subject: Re: [SLE] Choosing an MTA <p>Hello Tuncay, Either Sendmail or Postfix will be configured for you by YaST. If you want to configure the MTA yourself, Postfix is *much* easier to learn. Postfix is also smaller, reputed to be significantly faster, and is secure "by design", though as soon as someone says this, someone else will tell you "Sendmail hasn't had a hole in 2.5 years" or that qmail is more secure than Postfix, or that Sendmail is much more configurable. All I can say is that I know nothing about using MTA's and I configured Postfix very quickly. It works like a charm. Securityfocus.com and freebsd.org (among others) use it for their mailing lists. The postfix users group at postfix.org is extremely, extremely helpful should you have difficulty. Best, Corvin <p><p> -- Corvin Russell <corvinr@sympatico.ca>
Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2000 05:47:21 -0700 (MST) From: Monte Milanuk <milanuk@yahoo.com> Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0012040546110.4200-100000@ishamael.inet> Subject: Re: [SLE] Choosing an MTA Ummm... since when? It used to be that sendmail was the only game in town if you wanted to use YaST. Is this a new change for 7.0? Monte <p><p> _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 13:07:28 -0500 (EST) From: "Christopher W. Aiken" <cwaiken@telerama.com> Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10012051304470.26239-100000@linux32.ansys.com> Subject: Re: [SLE] Choosing an MTA On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Monte Milanuk wrote: -|Ummm... since when? It used to be that sendmail was the only game in town -|if you wanted to use YaST. Is this a new change for 7.0? -| -|Monte -| I always picked the packages that I needed to install with yast1/yast2. I always choose "postfix" over "sendmail". Works "right out of the box" for me w/o any changes. You can use yast1 --> change configuration file to make any necessary changes to the postfix setup. --- Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com Current O/S: SuSE 7.0
From: Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net> Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2000 14:15:30 +0100 Message-Id: <00120414153000.01716@buffy> Subject: Re: [SLE] Choosing an MTA On Monday 04 December 2000 02:54, Corvin Russell wrote:
Hello Tuncay,
Either Sendmail or Postfix will be configured for you by YaST. If you want to configure the MTA yourself, Postfix is *much* easier to learn. Postfix is also smaller, reputed to be significantly faster, and is secure "by design", though as soon as someone says this, someone else will tell you "Sendmail hasn't had a hole in 2.5 years" or that qmail is more secure than Postfix, or that Sendmail is much more configurable. All I can say is that I know nothing about using MTA's and I configured Postfix very quickly. It works like a charm.
This convinces me at least to have a look at it :)
Securityfocus.com and freebsd.org (among others) use it for their mailing lists. The postfix users group at postfix.org is extremely, extremely helpful should you have difficulty.
Best,
Corvin
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