Personally, I use postfix on my mailservers (including the one that hosts this list), however I am very interested in migrating to smtpd that is included with openbsd 4.6 and later. I would go with -current (to pick up all of the latest fixes), and experiment there. The primary reason I haven't migrated to smtpd is lack of (enough) free time.
On 2010 Jun 15 (Tue) at 15:16:05 -0600 (-0600), Michael wrote: :My ISP is moving all email accounts to Gmail :( :I've about got mutt working with the new gmail setup, but I have a question. :I would like to learn either sendmail or postfix for moving my email to/from gmail. :Would either one be easier? :Here is the scenario: :I just log in on my openbsd system as user, but I have two email accounts. :One for private email, the other for maillists, etc. I've got fetchmail set up to download for both accts. :I have msmtp pretty much set up to send for both accounts, but would like to learn to do the same with either sendmail or postfix. :I'm the only person on here and I realize either one is probably overkill for my simple needs. :I just want to learn one of them. I've never used postfix and used sendmail one time with help. :So, one user, two email accounts, and needing to set one up to handle sending mail with proper From: :Having never set either one up by myself and reading about them seems overwhelming at times. :Guess the old grey matter is slow in retention nowadays. :btw- I do understand about the postfix license and sendmail already being installed ;) : :I can't buy any books at this time due to being unemployed. : :Thanks for any info, views. I don't want to start an war, just help in knowing which might be easier! :) :_______________________________________________ :Openbsd-newbies mailing list :[email protected] :http://mailman.theapt.org/listinfo/openbsd-newbies -- Steinbach's Guideline for Systems Programming: Never test for an error condition you don't know how to handle. _______________________________________________ Openbsd-newbies mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.theapt.org/listinfo/openbsd-newbies
