OK, time to learn how to build a server.

[Mark Street]

Hey guys, I have been running qmail servers for years.  Yeah it takes a
little more to get it tweaked just right. but.... it just feels good once
you do it.  Postfix is very sendmail like.... I run it on one of my
laptops, very easy to compile, install and setup.

Also check out qmail the easy way, do a search on freshmeat.net.  It is a
script that downloads the source for qmail and all the utiltities that
go with it,djbdns, fastforward, ezmlm etc. and installs it on your
system with very little fuss.  I ran it on one of my test machines and it
did a damn good job, trouble is you still need to know how to setup qmail
to tweak it just right.

On RedHat rpm -e sendmail.... ; )

I don't think DJB allows RPM packages of his software in binary
form.  He wrote it, he makes the rules....

On Mon, 4 Mar 2002, troy wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 04:45:06PM -0800, E Frank Ball wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 03:16:59PM -0800, Doug Palmer wrote:
> > } I've been using Linux in various distros for a long time, but always as a
> > } workstation. Today I registered my first domain name and I want to set up
> > } http and mail services. Which book do I start with?
> >
> > postfix is fast, easy, and secure.  qmail is secure, and easy if you
> > have debian and bitch if you are using some other linux.  sendmail is
> > insane.  I don't know much about exim.
>
> Frank,  not sure what you mean by 'bitch'  I run production qmail
> mailservers on FreeBSD and RH.  Both built from source with no problems and
> require almost zero maintenance.  Also, personally, i really dig ezmlm for
> mailing lists.  I *am* quite certain what you mean by 'insane' and think
> you're being far too kind to sendmail :)
>
> Doug, the best docs for qmail, apache and thttpd are all online. Once
> configured, it'd probably be a good idea to relay test your mail setup with:
> http://www.abuse.net/relay.html
>
> -ta
>