To tell you the truth I much rather Sendmail over postfix. It's a much more
robust program, and Majordomo won't run with Postfix. Now about this insecure
stuff. Where? As far as I know Sendmail is a mail program. It's job is to
send and receive mail not provide for system security. Thats a job better
suited for Portsentry and Ipchains.
--
Mark
"If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless,"
"Sharing is what makes them powerful."
Linus Torvalds
On Monday 15 January 2001 01:04 pm, you wrote:
> Sorry for the dumb questions.
>
> I once tried postfix and I think I must have cocked it up
> horribly.
>
> It was the version from Mandrake 6.0 or 6.1 I think,
> does the new version work better or did I schplum something
> up when setting it all up?
>
> What happened was, I noticed that pine and any other
> e mail app would not be able to pick up e mail,
> does the mail arrive in /var/spool/mail as in sendmail
> or another folder and is it in the same plain text format?
>
> Where might I have gibbled up the config for postfix,
> as I would like to try it again and see if I can have a
> little newer running system and make some improvements,
> and what would be a safe way to migrate from sendmail
> to postfix without losing any mails?
>
> Many thanks for your patience.
>
> Vic
>
> On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > How? Replace it with Postfix. I believe 7.2 COMES with postfix, and if
> > not, its easy to compile. Almost scary easy.
> >
> > Really, sendmail contains so much legacy code that it's become a bloated,
> > insecure horrible horrible service. Postfix is MUCH faster (you should be
> > able to push a million email a day on that box of yours), and its easy to
> > configure. If you can configure apache, then you can do postfix.
