On Mon, 2010-10-11 at 02:57 -0400, Chris Knadle wrote:
> I've never tried to run multiple *different* MTAs at the same time -- that I > can imagine being ugly and unpleasant, because there are differences in > logging between MTAs among other things. And I can see several other > problems > with the idea -- the 'mailq' command would have contention for more than one > MTA, so you'd have to install the 2nd MTA in a different path and specify the > path to the executables in the init scripts as well as when you want to run > commands... yeah, I can see that being ugly. > > -- Chris > According to the Oreilly book "Essential System Administration" 3rd edition (2002), Posfix and sendmail can coexist: ================================================================================================================= 9.4.2.1 Installing Postfix Installing Postfix is not difficult, but it does require some care. It is possible to use both Postfix and sendmail on the same system, and the procedures for doing so are discussed in the INSTALL file in the Postfix source distribution. In this discussion, we will assume that Postfix is replacing sendmail. ==================================================================================================================== I did not read the referenced Postfix INSTALL file. (Personal note: I'm not trying to argue with the experts. Only after reading in this thread that one of the thread participants used to administer an email server, I thought it would be interesting to read the chapter on email in "Essential System Administration"). _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium Nov 3 - Open Source Hardware: Bugs, Beagles and Beyond Dec 1 - IBM's Open Client Deployment Jan 5 - Building a Comunity Site with Drupal
