Subject: Re: qmail or postfix ??
From: Greg Jetter (greg@lazymountain.com)
Date: Wed Apr 30 2003 - 09:37:25 AKDT
On Tuesday April 29 2003 11:22 pm, J. M. Mason wrote:
> Sorry, I just gotta jump on this one.
>
> Quote from Unix Haters Handbook (quite a read - funny stuff, although a
> lot of the peeves are no longer applicable - and very funny).
>
> "Not having sendmail is like not having VD."
>
> :-)
>
> ~Mac~
My trouble is I learned on sendmail , am too lazy to attempt another pro=
gram=20
, so I'll just stick with it .. liked you comments ;)
Greg
>
> On Tue, 29 Apr 2003, Greg Jetter wrote:
> > On Tuesday April 29 2003 8:14 pm, Damien Hull wrote:
> > > It seems that there are a few people on the list that are running t=
heir
> > > own mail server. I know a few people have been pushing Qmail but th=
e
> > > other option is Postfix.
> > >
> > > Why Postfix? Well, all you need to do is install it, configure the
> > > domain it excepts mail for and your done.
> > >
> > > You can setup spam filters just like you do in Qmail. You can also
> > > setu=3D
> >
> > p
> >
> > > virtual accounts like Qmail.
> > >
> > > Virtual accounts are nice but if you only have a small number of us=
ers
> > > why bother. If your the sys admin you are only creating more work f=
or
> > > your self.
> > >
> > > Another tip to setting up a mail server or any other server is webm=
in.
> > > =3D
> >
> > I
> >
> > > see a lot of people configuring servers from the command line. That=
's
> > > good practice but why do that when you can install webmin and point=
and
> > > click your way to a server in a mater of minutes instead of hours.
> > >
> > > I've managed Postfix on Linux and FreeBSD with out any problems.
> >
> > sendmail is just as good , if not better , does everything you could
> > ask=3D for=3D20
> > , been around since Christ was a corporal ...
> >
> > Greg
> >
> >
> >
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