On Monday 18 November 2002 11:07 pm, Devdas Bhagat wrote: > On 18/11/02 17:51 +0530, Yashpal Nagar wrote: > > Hi Linuxians, > > I have one of my friend using MS exchange 5.5 , I suggest him to make > > change overs to Linux with sendmail. Now when he to make these change > > overs, He found few challenges viz > > > > 1. He is having around 300 users , How do he need to make changes so that > > all passwords etc remains same so that no one even get noticed of change > > over. > > What does Exchange maintain the password database in? A LDAP like > directory? Move to OpenLDAP. Otherwise sniff the network and get > everyones password.
Yes, They maintaines users in LDAP. Since we have no idea about OpenLDAP with sendmail/postfix , is there any link which can help and Can in OpenLDAP we transfer the same users with there same passwords ?? > > > 2. M$ exchange sucks every email quickly while sending emails(Say to 500 > > users) even with any mail to non existent domain say > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] But when i try with sending such mails with > > sendmail box it gives MX record problem to users itself. Which they don't > > want they want any notification later on. > > DeferDNSLookups is what you want maybe (IIRC, possible foot in mouth, > since I have given up sendmail for a long time)? Is that FEATURE(`relay_based_on_MX') in sendmail.mc ? > > <snip> > > > Can anyone help me in the tunning of sendmail for such kind of setup. Me > > sure that sendmail /qmail can perform well than any M$ exchange. > > Please help ! > > Did you consider postfix? > http://www.postfix.org/ > > My personal experience is that postfix defaults are much faster than > sendmail defaults, and that sendmail requires more skill to maintain > than postfix (you don't want anyone looking at sendmail.cf). Yeah , i have worked with postfix in my previous co, Thats very small and Plain English written config file. That would be easy.:) Regards, -Yash > > Devdas Bhagat > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by: To learn the basics of securing > your web site with SSL, click here to get a FREE TRIAL of a Thawte > Server Certificate: http://www.gothawte.com/rd524.html > _______________________________________________ > linux-india-help mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help -- -- Yashpal Nagar Systems Admin Delhi Call Centers Ph 0124 8980230, Cell +91 9811499273 ----------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: To learn the basics of securing your web site with SSL, click here to get a FREE TRIAL of a Thawte Server Certificate: http://www.gothawte.com/rd524.html _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
