On Sat, May 27, 2017 at 12:11:15PM -0600, Alan Feuerbacher wrote: > Success! I've managed to boot LFS 8.0, X Windows, Firefox and Thunderbird. > > I've learned a lot about Linux from this, especially how to boot with an EFI > bios and GTP partitions. > > On 5/25/2017 2:32 PM, Ken Moffat wrote: > > On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 12:30:56PM -0600, Alan Feuerbacher wrote: > > > On 5/25/2017 12:24 PM, Kuba wrote: > > > > On Thu, 25 May 2017 12:19:53 -0600, Alan Feuerbacher > > > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > First, may I suggest that sendmail is probably not a mail server > > which many people want to use. It used to be horrendous to > > configure. I run postfix, which provides /usr/sbin/sendmail. > > I looked into installing that, but on first glance it looks like a lot of > work configuring it. Comments? > > Now that Thunderbird is working, do I need Postfix? > > > Just mentioning that in case it is something in sendmail that is > > hanging. > > Turns out sendmail was working ok. But I've disabled it. >
All depends what you want to do for mail :) I keep mail in mboxes on the machine designated as my server. I run fcron jobs ln the other machines (SMART status, periodic log rotation, first-stage backups) and hope to send the mail to the server where I can read it. From time to time things end up in /var/mail on the desktop boxes. If thunderbird does all you need then you don't need postfix or sendmail. ĸen -- I live in a city. I know sparrows from starlings. After that everything is a duck as far as I'm concerned. -- Monstrous Regiment -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page Do not top post on this list. A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style
