Marc Chamberlin: > Hello - > > I am a new subscriber to this mail list and am in need of some help > configuring Postfix/Sendmail to work with the Apache James email server. > Don't get me wrong on this, Postfix is probably a fine MTA, but I have > some complex mailets designed which run under Apache James. ;-) Anywise, > in the past, I have usually turned off Postfix, on my servers, and just > used the older Sendmail to handle the mail interface for some other > applications that are also running on my servers. (Bugzilla and Bacula > in particular) To accomplish this, the people at Apache James supplied a > set of instructions (now found at > http://wiki.apache.org/james/JamesAndSendmail ) to configure Sendmail > just to relay email it picks up, to James, and not conflict with James > in using the ports) > > My distro (openSuSE 11.4) appears to be dropping the older Sendmail and > moving towards Postfix instead. I know that Postfix supplies a somewhat > compatible SendMail front end, so as to remain compatible with those > applications that use Sendmail. What I need to know is how to configure > Postfix/SendMail to work with and be compatible with Apache James. In > other words, I would like to be able to accomplish the same effective > configuration as was done and explained on the above mentioned webpage.
If you can describe what Sendmail features Apache James requires, then an experienced Postix admin here can tell you if you need to change any Apache/Postfix settings at all. For example, if it connected to Sendmail with SMTP, then all settings you need are in http://www.postfix.org/BASIC_CONFIGURATION_README.html. Wietse
