On Wed, 05 Mar 2003, GarUlbricht7 said:
Hi Uli and Martin --- <... last nite I downloaded the patch for "sendmail" However, i have my copy of "sendmail" turned off, put I was planning to turn it on soon, when I saw Martin's post and wondered how many have switched to Wietse Venema's "postmix, which SuSE has a version for my 8.0 box, and probably for 8.1 too--- i tried to load "postfix" but it conflicts w/send mail -- so .....what to do??? comments, anyone.
Postfix is a very fast, complete and easily understandable MTA, with many (very good) anti-UCE options (90% of the arriving spam here is rejected by Postfix with DNSBL, valid host/domainname checks, domain blacklist etc.). The version supplied with SuSe is 1.1.10 afaik, the source on postfix.org is at 2.0.4 now, with a lot of further improvements and features. Building a rpm for yourself is easy; after 'make', instead of 'make install' use checkinstall (also on the CDs) and a line for 'provides' (smtp_daemon postfix) to build and install Postfix. Remove sendmail, change two or three config variables in main.cf (well documented) and do 'postfix start'. I for one will never touch sendmail again after experiencing the relaxed way in which I can use a complex product like a MTA in the Postfix way. Theo -- Theo v. Werkhoven Registered Linux user# 99872 http://counter.li.org ICBM 52 13 27N , 4 29 45E. SuSE 8.0 x86 Kernel k_Athlon 2.4.19-4GB See headers for PGP/GPG info.