[ale] postfix settings

Geoffrey esoteric at 3times25.net
Fri Jul 30 23:48:27 EDT 2004


James P. Kinney III wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-07-30 at 23:10, Geoffrey wrote:

>>I should have known this, but I still maintain that RHWS shouldn't let 
>>you install two MTAs, it doesn't make any sense, unless someone knows 
>>otherwise.
> 
> 
> They already get yelled at for having such a poor implementation of KDE.
> :) I'm surprised they have 2 myself. The only way to install it during
> an install is to select it or select "install all". None of the preset
> installs have postfix.
> 
> Actually having sendmail installed in the default RH way for a
> workstation is pretty small and safe. It is used only to transfer mail
> out from the workstation and move messages around on the workstation.
> Postfix would be a bit larger and more complex for simple stuff like
> this that sendmail. 
> 
> Of course the postfix docs don't require the demise of an entire forest
> to print...

And the fact that I've been using postfix for a while now makes it a bit 
easier to work with, or so I thought... :)

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey       Registered Linux User #108567
                             AT&T Certified UNIX System Programmer - 1995



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