On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 13:25 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:
> fred smith wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 08:55:38AM -0800, John R Pierce wrote:
> >> Susan Day wrote:
> >>> Hi;
> >>> I don't want sendmail. What's a good secure email server that I can
> >>> yum? I really only need smtp right now, but who knows what the future
> >>> will bring?
> >> SMTP only provides for relaying mail. a mail server typically needs
> >> a MTA (message transfer agent, smtp such as sendmail, postfix), a MDA
> >> (message delivery agent, such as procmail), and a MUA (message user
> >> agent, such as POP, IMAP, and various local unix mail readers).
> >>
> >> any mail server is only as secure as you configure it. the usual
> >> alternative to sendmail is postfix, which many people find simpler to
> >> configure than sendmail.
> >
> > :)
> > but then what ISN'T simpler to configure than sendmail?
> > :)
>
> Hardly anything, given that it is almost completely done for you in the
> supplied /etc/mail/sendmail.mc file. You just have to fix the
> intentionally-borked DAEMON_OPTIONS if you want to receive outside mail,
> fill in SMART_HOST if you'd like another machine to relay for you, and
> add entries in the access file for networks you want to relay for. And
> restarting the sendmail service will do the updates you need after
> changing these files.
----
This reminds me of the Woody Allen movie where they asked the couple,
how often they had sex and the man said, "hardly ever, maybe only twice
a week" and the woman said "it seems like all of the time...maybe twice
a week"
Craig
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