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Ralphred
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I've been running sendmail myself for years, and am fine with it, but I have to set-up some new servers where I'm not the only maintainer.
There is a general consensus that postfix is easier to use, so I thought it'd be a good idea to use it in these cases instead of my default of sendmail, anyone know of a decent resource for someone switching?[/list] |
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grknight
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The Postfix Documentation is very thorough with tons of examples.
It is ready to go almost out of the box if using a standard local machine and its accounts.
Rather than pointing to a porting guide, ask questions and those who are experienced can help (after reviewing any documentation first). |
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Ralphred
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| grknight wrote: | | It is ready to go almost out of the box |
This was my problem in the end, no one tells you what it does "out of the box" and I was looking for documentation to set-up "default features".
I found a pretty well curated container that suits this use case better, as it doesn't really expose anything potentially detrimental and has a much smaller "configuration surface" to document for the other admins. Alas my understanding of postfix is still a almost zero, maybe next time... |
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grknight
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| Ralphred wrote: | | This was my problem in the end, no one tells you what it does "out of the box" and I was looking for documentation to set-up "default features". |
"out of the box" means accept mail for local UNIX users with a simple MDA, using the FQDN hostname of the machine as the default acceptable destination and only relay messages created on that machine or otherwise SASL authenticated
If you want to know more, then ask questions. |
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