On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, (Jonathan Wilson) wrote:
> I don't have the guts to try switching from sendmail to postfix.
One of the primary advantages of the Linux platform is its flexibility.
Options are good. Sendmail will usually suffice for most tasks, but other
software will often work better. You don't _have_ to switch to postfix,
but if you ever have to do anything tricky with sendmail (like configure
it :p ), then you'll probably have actually saved time by switching to
postfix, or qmail, or courier and learning to use one of them from the
start.
> I'm the one that talked my boss intot the fact that "we really need to
> switch from NT to Linux" heh.
Well, you didn't tell him to switch to sendmail :) You might regard the
installation of postfix (or whatever) as just another software
installation. It shouldn't take longer to install any other mailer (rpms
are available for all of those that I listed above) than it would to look
over the current sendmail configuration to feel comfortable that you know
exactly the what's and why's of how it's going to behave when it runs.
> I sure wish some of these distros would use postfix and ProFTPD as the
> default instead of sendmail and wuftpd.
You can do one of two things if you plan to install more Linux
systems. the first is to modify the Red Hat CDROM, replaceing the
packages you don't like, and modifying the comps and hdlist files.
You can also create a kickstart disk that installs only the packages you
want from the Red Hat media, and with a post-install script that installs
and configures the other software you want in it, like openssh and
postfix.
I've done them both. The kickstart disk is by far the better option,
since it's much easier to maintain. I've got a kickstart config I put
together a while back that would install a very basic Linux system, and
militantly locked the system down. It would make an OpenBSD user
smile... (until they remembered that it's Linux). I'll probably dig it
out sometime.
> Anyway, if I told my boss I have to remove sendmail in order to get a bulk
> emailer, he'd think I was crazy. He's not sold on Linux yet so I have to be
> careful :-)
Then, try sendmail out. It will, in all probability, deliver your mail
(imagine that ;). If you find that it's slow, or for some other reason
doesn't suit your needs, then remember that you have options.
MSG
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