Subject: RE: sendmail help
From: W.D.McKinney (deem@wdm.com)
Date: Sun Apr 21 2002 - 15:13:26 AKDT
If you are on a Red Hat system, it could be dones easily
using the package rpm.
Like:
root@ntbox /root]# rpm -e sendmail sendmail-cf sendmail-doc
error: removing these packages would break dependencies:
smtpdaemon is needed by fetchmail-5.0.0-1
smtpdaemon is needed by mutt-0.95.4us-4
smtpdaemon is needed by nmh-0.27-8
/usr/bin/newaliases is needed by mailman-1.0rc2-1
(from
http://www.redhat.com/support/resources/howto/RH-postfix-HOWTO/x93.html )
/Dee
-----Original Message-----
From: aklug-bounce@aklug.org [mailto:aklug-bounce@aklug.org]On Behalf Of
gkvokov@ieee.org
Sent: Sunday, April 21, 2002 3:01 PM
To: aklug@aklug.org
Subject: Re: sendmail help
If I do decide to go with postfix, is there a way to uninstall sendmail
cleanly with one or two commands? Or, would I need to manually find all the
bits and pieces and get rid of myself?
>Your reverse name lookup doesn't match your forward... This is a problem
>that can be delt with in two ways.
>
>You can either set your MX record to 186-3-237-24-cable.anchorageak.net or
>you can tell postfix/sendmail to use mail.gci.net as the relay host.
>
>when a mail server does a reverse lookup on that ip and gets something
>else, then mail service is rejected. If your mail server advertised
>itself as 186-3-237-24-cable.anchorageak.net and that was also in your MX
>record then your reverse will match your forward and everyone will be
>happy.
>
>since you are part of gci's network their mail server should allow you to
>relay email. Setting mail.gci.net as the relay host in sendmail/postfix
>will send all outgoing mail through their servers.
>
>hope that helps,
>
>-james
>
>>
>> Hello Greg.
>>
>> This may not be what you are looking for, but it may help you out.
>>
>> I stopped using sendmail years ago. I find that it is too difficult to
>> configure and it's got a steep learning curve. I've moved to Postfix.
>> It is a drop in replacement for sendmail, it is fast, reliable, easy to
>> configure, and is designed with security in mind.
>>
>> RedHat doesn't come with Postfix, though they have a HOWTO on installing
>> it, which is easy to follow and can have you up and running in a flash.
>> I've got Postfix running on my RH7.2 server and it works great.
>>
>> Here are a few links that will help you out if you decide to go that
>> route.
>>
>> RedHat Postfix HOWTO:
>> http://www.redhat.com/support/resources/howto/RH-postfix-HOWTO/book1.html
>>
>> RedHat Postfix FAQ:
>> http://www.redhat.com/support/resources/faqs/RH-postfix-FAQ/book1.html
>>
>>
>> Either way you go, I wish you luck!
>>
>> Anthony
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