I would personally install qmail. http://www.qmail.org/top.html Its secure, 10k reward for first problem on it. Also its supposed to be super easy to setup. Sendmail is known as the largest damn program on the face of the earth. But other than that i would use sendmail. I know i am going to have to learn it with my AIX and Solaris studying... Rob
>> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Stephen Kuhn >> Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 6:39 PM >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Subject: [newbie] Took the plunge - CUZ I HAD TO >> >> >> Ok, y'all - no flames, no laughs, no jests. >> >> The day before yesterday I hosed my PRIMARY linux box - running RH 7.3+. >> Because the partition table was mucked up beyond recognition, I lost my >> email, bookmarks, contacts, yadda yadda yadda...you name it, I lost it. >> Mind included. >> >> Resolution to the issue was at first trying to get RH 8.0 on NICELY - >> didn't work. Actually, the performance was so lousy, and setting up a >> SIMPLE BLOODY HCF MODEM was so complex, I gave up. It was sickening. >> Hours gone for nothing. Ok - so now I've installed MDK 9.1rc2 - >> installation of EVERYTHING (and some) was less than an hour. Even setup >> my / and other FS's as ReiserFS without a hitch. Changed to the NVidia >> driver (via source compilation) in no time at all. Had to dig for KPPP, >> though - cuz it wasn't installed by default and the MCC still don't play >> nicely for doing simple setups - but that's another story...even got my >> IP masquerading done rather quickly - few minutes - nice. >> >> I have to say that KDE 3.1 is a beaut. MDK 9.1 has quite a bit of >> polish, quite a bit of performance - quite a lot of getting used to >> because, remember, I was enslaved to the RH world - but no mo. Nada. >> Done. Finito. >> >> The only issues I have now are that I have to get Postfix (yech) working >> nicely as it ain't playing nicely - and I'm far from being a Postfix >> freak - so I'm wondering about blowing Postfix and putting Sendmail >> on... >> >> SO, if y'all got something to tell me - some bits of wisdom or advice, >> please PLEASE tell me - cuz I've already lost three days of productivity >> with this and well, I'm really tired now...(grin) BUT, I'm happy it's >> working like a champ (performance is still mind boggling for me...really >> - not a joke) >> >> -- >> Stephen Kuhn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Kuhn Media Australia >> >>
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