Re: [CentOS] Postfix vs Sendmail

2013-11-03 Thread David G . Miller
Harold Pritchett harold@... writes: On 11/2/2013 8:57 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: I have two CentOS-6.4 servers, in different places. I am running postfix/amavis on one, and sendmail/procmail on the other. I don't recall having any difficulty setting up sendmail many years ago using

[CentOS] Postfix vs Sendmail

2013-11-02 Thread Timothy Murphy
I have two CentOS-6.4 servers, in different places. I am running postfix/amavis on one, and sendmail/procmail on the other. I don't recall having any difficulty setting up sendmail many years ago using sendmail.mc . But I found postfix very complicated to setup last year. (It's working fine now.)

Re: [CentOS] Postfix vs Sendmail

2013-11-02 Thread Andrew Holway
I think sane people use exim nowadays. On 2 November 2013 12:57, Timothy Murphy gayle...@eircom.net wrote: I have two CentOS-6.4 servers, in different places. I am running postfix/amavis on one, and sendmail/procmail on the other. I don't recall having any difficulty setting up sendmail many

Re: [CentOS] Postfix vs Sendmail

2013-11-02 Thread Ned Slider
On 02/11/13 12:57, Timothy Murphy wrote: I have two CentOS-6.4 servers, in different places. I am running postfix/amavis on one, and sendmail/procmail on the other. I don't recall having any difficulty setting up sendmail many years ago using sendmail.mc . But I found postfix very complicated

Re: [CentOS] Postfix vs Sendmail

2013-11-02 Thread Les Mikesell
On Sat, Nov 2, 2013 at 7:57 AM, Timothy Murphy gayle...@eircom.net wrote: I asked why postfix was preferable, but didn't any convincing reply. The general response was along the lines that it was the modern way. Sendmail was written back in the days of wooden computers and iron programmers and

Re: [CentOS] Postfix vs Sendmail

2013-11-02 Thread Harold Pritchett
On 11/2/2013 8:57 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: I have two CentOS-6.4 servers, in different places. I am running postfix/amavis on one, and sendmail/procmail on the other. I don't recall having any difficulty setting up sendmail many years ago using sendmail.mc . But I found postfix very

Re: [CentOS] Postfix vs Sendmail

2013-11-02 Thread Andrew Holway
when in doubt; use google mail. :) On 2 November 2013 15:57, Harold Pritchett har...@uga.edu wrote: On 11/2/2013 8:57 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: I have two CentOS-6.4 servers, in different places. I am running postfix/amavis on one, and sendmail/procmail on the other. I don't recall having any

Re: [CentOS] Postfix vs Sendmail

2013-11-02 Thread Luigi Rosa
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Timothy Murphy said the following on 02/11/2013 13:57: Having looked into postfix/amavis a little further, it seems to me to involve excessively complicated processes (at least for a simple home server) with email going along spaghetti-like

Re: [CentOS] Postfix vs Sendmail

2013-11-02 Thread Fred Smith
On Sat, Nov 02, 2013 at 10:41:53AM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: On Sat, Nov 2, 2013 at 7:57 AM, Timothy Murphy gayle...@eircom.net wrote: I asked why postfix was preferable, but didn't any convincing reply. The general response was along the lines that it was the modern way. Sendmail was

Re: [CentOS] Postfix vs Sendmail

2013-11-02 Thread Stephen Harris
On Sat, Nov 02, 2013 at 01:58:33PM -0400, Fred Smith wrote: I've accumulated a set of rules for the sendmail.mc file that do what sendmail.mc ? Back in the day all we had (SunOS 4) was the cf files that we had to mangle by hand :-) -- rgds Stephen

Re: [CentOS] Postfix vs Sendmail

2013-11-02 Thread John R Pierce
On 11/2/2013 1:43 PM, Stephen Harris wrote: sendmail.mc ? Back in the day all we had (SunOS 4) was the cf files that we had to mangle by hand now that was some truly scary stuff.the .mc/m4 macro stuff was a latecomer. -- john r pierce 37N 122W

Re: [CentOS] Postfix vs Sendmail

2013-11-02 Thread Fred Smith
On Sat, Nov 02, 2013 at 04:43:59PM -0400, Stephen Harris wrote: On Sat, Nov 02, 2013 at 01:58:33PM -0400, Fred Smith wrote: I've accumulated a set of rules for the sendmail.mc file that do what sendmail.mc ? Back in the day all we had (SunOS 4) was the cf files that we had to mangle by