[oclug] Re: [SLE] Postfix

[Christopher W. Aiken]

On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, b stephen harding wrote:

->Hi,
->
->This may or may not be a question for SuSE users.  Presently, I believe
->that Sendmail is running by default on a SuSE 7.0 box.  Now I have for the
->past year heard more and more suggestions, that it is better to be running
->Postfix or Qmail instead.  If this is so, I'm thinking of running
->Postfix.  My reasoning is from numerous posts, Postfix is said to be easy
->to work with and secure.
->
->If I uninstall Sendmail what will get broken on my SuSE 7.0?  What should I
->be look for in advance to make sure there is a smooth transition.
->
->Just one additional note, this is not a network but a standalone machine,
->if that should matter.
->

It's been a while since I installed and SuSE, but if I remember
correctly, just use yast.  Delete sendmail and yast should give
you a warning and ask you to choose one of several.  Just choose
postfix.

BTW.... SuSE 7.0 was the only system I could NOT get sendmail to
work.  I always installed postfix.  Worked great right "out of the box"
w/o any tweaking.

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Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA
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