[plug] MTA Comparison & Debian OpenSSH

Christian christian at global.net.au
Fri Dec 3 12:51:41 WST 1999


On Thu, 2 Dec 1999, John Summerfield wrote:
> > Agree. PostFix (comes with mandrake 6.0 and 6.1, maybe RedHat 6.1??)
> 
> RedHat will not distribute PostFix.

Why not?
 
> Don't change from sendmail if you have a working configuration AND you're 
> sure you will recover the time spent in identifying an alternative, 
> installing it, learning it and configuring it.

I understand Postfix is pretty much a drop in replacement for sendmail so
I doubt it would be a very time consuming task to migrate if someone
wanted to.  I've played around with Postfix replacing smail and there
didn't seem to be any real problems, plus the configuration options are
trivially easy.

Regards,

Christian.

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