Jan Engelhardt wrote:
Why not simply use sendmail? Some of us still prefer sendmail as the MTA. If someone really wants to use sendmail, more power to him. But if he just wants a working MTA, why should he go through the contortions of trying to get sendmail configured, when postfix is the default MTA in suse, and all ready to rock and roll?
SUSE has a superb sendmail configuration tool. You only need to edit /etc/sysconfig/mail and /etc/sysconfig/sendmail and you are set (run SuSEconfig).
Correct me if I am wrong, but out_of_the_box it is not ready to rock and roll if you are going to actually use it as a domain MTA. There is still setup to do. I actually found postfix harder to setup until I used webmin to setup a few things. To each their own choice because that's what it's all about, choice.
I'm glad sendmail is supported in suse. However, when it comes to ease of MTA config in suse, I think postfix has sendmail beat. For instance, you can go into yast and click one button to enable virus/spam scanning - is that also the case when using sendmail, or does a sendmail install require some googling and config file tweaking to achieve the same effect? Joe --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org