There have been some questions lately here about Postfix. I decided life was too short for dealing with sendmail and have been happily using Postfix for some time now. I would highly recommend it. If you want to change over here are some recommendations: - First Read the FAQ - Look at www.postfix.org - If you have questions send them then to postfix-users@postfix.org I have never had to wait more than 24 hours for an answer, usually a lot less. The author himself reads and responds to many of the questions himself, and there are a couple of other more or less resident gurus. Cliff (This was a public service announcement :) p.s. There is a small bug in the Suse/Linux installation with regard to timezone handling. I posted my solution to this a few days ago. I believe a revised script is available for this.
I second Cliff's recommendations, both of Postfix, and of the users' group. Should you run into trouble, having first read the FAQ and the manual, you can post to postfix-users and get a highly authoritative answer. Anyway, Postfix works out of the box for many simple cases. I don't know what an earlier poster could have meant when he said some software was "incompatible" with postfix. In the absence of further evidence, that sounds like misconfiguration to me. Corvin -- Corvin Russell <corvinr@sympatico.ca>
On Thu, 25 Jan 2001 08:00:36 GMT, Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net> wrote:
There have been some questions lately here about Postfix. I decided life was too short for dealing with sendmail and have been happily using Postfix for some time now. I would highly recommend it. If you want to change over here are some recommendations:
- First Read the FAQ
Does postfix do SMTP AUTH? I took a quick glance at the FAQ, and under "relaying" I saw no mention of SMTP AUTH.
** Reply to message from Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net> on Thu, 25 Jan 2001 08:00:36 GMT
There have been some questions lately here about Postfix. I decided life was too short for dealing with sendmail and have been happily using Postfix for some time now. I would highly recommend it.
I have a standalone machine. My only mail is in/out via a DSL connection to the outside. I have never noted any problems; I don't even know if I am using sendmail. I have seen messages on the console about a "postfix" error - postfix not running. Would I benefit from having postfix active? Ed Harrison SuSE 6.4, Kernel 2.4.0, X 4.0.2, IBM JDK 1.1.8 or Warp 4, FP12 or Windows98 (running in vmware 2.0.3 for fun) PolarBarMailer 1.1.19a
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