So it would be better to go ahead and use Sendmail instead of Postfix?

Jim Hale
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Jim & Kathy's Website Collection
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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Ed Wilts
> Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 10:23 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Email Services
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> Status:   
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> > (1) 10 or so Email addresses that I can access via pop3 (Outlook 
> > XP/2002 INSIDE my firewall) that the outside world can send 
> mail to. I 
> > use a dyndns.org address currently and everything is fine there. I 
> > also need to be able to get to these mailboxes from my workplace. 
> > Which would be better? Sendmail, Postfix or what?
> 
> Sendmail is actually fairly trivial for the basics.  It has a 
> lot of options, but it's unlikely you'll need to tweak the 
> vast majority of them. Most Linux distributions include an 
> imap/pop3 server that's perfectly adequate.  Sendmail had a 
> lot of security issues in its history but it's currently 
> considered secure - after all, there are a *LOT* of major 
> companies that rely on Sendmail and if there were to be a 
> hole, it would be fixed very quickly.
> 
> > (2) The ability to setup Mailing Lists that people can subscribe to 
> > either by sending an email to my daemon or by a web page interface.
> 
> Red Hat Linux comes with Mailman - it's what drives this 
> list.  I've got a few small lists my server and haven't had 
> any issues.  Red Hat wouldn't use it if it sucked.  I've 
> always used the web interface - I can't remember if it's got 
> mail-message commands.
> 
> Ed Wilts
> Mounds View, MN, USA
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