I've installed the latest security fix packages for sendmail, yet again. Any thoughts on switching to postfix or such?
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
(Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com): I've installed the latest security fix packages for sendmail, yet again. Any thoughts on switching to postfix or such?
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
I installed qmail on Piclab, I like it, and I'm willing to do that on the Wikipedia server--but there are some catches:
- I'm not really much of a sysadmin; I'm a programmer. I can install software, and bumble through routine maintenance, but most maintenance will still fall on Jason, so his comfort level with the software is important.
- The mailing lists all use mailman, and I've never installed mailman over qmail (Piclab uses ezmlm).
On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 01:39:35PM -0600, Lee Daniel Crocker wrote:
(Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com): I've installed the latest security fix packages for sendmail, yet again. Any thoughts on switching to postfix or such?
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
I installed qmail on Piclab, I like it, and I'm willing to do that on the Wikipedia server--but there are some catches:
I'm not really much of a sysadmin; I'm a programmer. I can install software, and bumble through routine maintenance, but most maintenance will still fall on Jason, so his comfort level with the software is important.
The mailing lists all use mailman, and I've never installed mailman over qmail (Piclab uses ezmlm).
I'm using postfix for my mail services, it seems to work peachy keen. Two thumbs up from me. :)
Lee Daniel Crocker wrote:
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- I'm not really much of a sysadmin; I'm a programmer. I can install software, and bumble through routine maintenance, but most maintenance will still fall on Jason, so his comfort level with the software is important.
Maintenance? What's that? :) Honestly, I am against any mail software that is going to require routine maintenance, unless you mean security updates. Has Sendmail really been that bothersome?
- The mailing lists all use mailman, and I've never installed mailman over qmail (Piclab uses ezmlm).
...
I don't know how mailman handles it's outgoing mail (blast my ignorance), but it receives incoming mail by alieasing the address as "| mailman-wrapper listname". I assume that most mail delivery agents are capable of such a thing. Really, I guess mailman could continue to use sendmail for outgoing mail (assuming it uses it now).
--- "Jason C. Richey" jasonr@bomis.com
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