sendmail is one of the most arcane Unix systems known to exist. It is also extrmely popular and ubiquitous. Choose it if you want to impress your nerdy friends.
postfix is much simpler to configure. Nobody could possibly disagree with that. There are others. Debian systems install with exim, for example. As other have mentioned, the distro you choose should give you a working MTA configuration out of the box, and you probably don't even need to know what it is. Your first order of business should be finding that feature and employing it. Cory Snavely University of Michigan Library IT Core Services On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 00:20 +0530, Sahil Dave wrote: > well i have never configured any MTA bfore .. so i needed some good > info.. > which do u think is more supported ... sendmail or postfix??? > > > On 2/15/07, James Rutherford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > apologies for sending this twice. in future, make sure you > 'reply-all' > on the mailing list emails so that your responses go back to > the list. > > cheers, > > jim. > > On 15/02/07, James Rutherford < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 14/02/07, Sahil Dave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > yes i am running Mandriva 2007.. but i need to deploy > Dspace on RHEL 4 - ES > > > in my Library... > > > what all changes do i need to make to the postfix & DSpace > config. > > > files....?? > > > > RHEL4 will probably have sendmail setup and configured > already. You > > can check to see if it is by running (as root) lsof -i > tcp:25 > > > > you should see something like the following if it is > running: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# lsof -i tcp:25 > > COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE NODE NAME > > sendmail 2995 root 3u IPv4 6365 TCP > > localhost.localdomain:smtp (LISTEN) > > > > If this is the case, you just need to configure the mail > server in > > your dspace.cfg to be localhost, and add the username and > password as > > required for the sendmail configuration. Note that if you're > running > > sendmail purely for your DSpace repository, you should > configure your > > firewall to block external connections to port 25 to avoid > being used > > as a relay. > > > > There is nothing special about DSpace SMTP requirements, so > for > > whichever software you use, you should be able to find ample > > documentation and sample configuration files. I'm afraid I > don't > > really know much about postfix, but I do know that it is a > > well-documented project, so you should have no problems > using it if > > you really want to. > > > > Jim. > > > > -- > Sahil > MCA(SE) > USIT > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
