From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 12 14: 9:19 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net (snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC16D37B409 for ; Tue, 12 Jun 2001 14:08:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ipthomas_77@yahoo.com) Received: from scraemondaemon.my.domain (1Cust20.tnt12.buffalo.ny.da.uu.net [63.42.225.20]) by snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net (EL-8_9_3_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA29874; Tue, 12 Jun 2001 14:08:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from ipt@localhost) by scraemondaemon.my.domain (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA02196; Tue, 12 Jun 2001 17:07:44 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from ipt) From: "Ian P. Thomas" Message-Id: <200106122107.RAA02196@scraemondaemon.my.domain> Subject: Re: Yanking Sendmail need something easier to understand To: dleimbac@earthlink.net (David Leimbach) Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 17:07:43 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20010612125045.A593@mutt.home.net> from "David Leimbach" at Jun 12, 2001 12:50:45 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL5] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've never used postfix, but from what I've heard, it was built as a replacement for Sendmail due to Sendmail's numerous security problems. YMMV. I run Sendmail with the smrsh option, this allows Sendmail to use a shell other than sh for its activities. The smrsh was developed as a secure replacement for sh. You can even specify which user commands smrsh will execute by putting them in /usr/adm/sm.bin/. Performance wise, I can only speak from my own experience and say that Sendmail has always worked for me, but I only get around 200-300 email through my machine daily. Ian In the last episode, David Leimbach stated... > > I have sendmail set up the way I like it right now... > > I just don't like knowing what I did to make it happen. > > I used install-sendmail [a perl package] to get it set up... > I tried using grep and other things to see what exactly it was that I did > but sendmail is just unintelligible. :) > > I wouldn't mind learning sendmail... complex things don't bother me > so long as they perform really well... > > How does postfix compare to sendmail as far as performance/security? > > Dave > On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 01:04:32PM -0400, Ian P. Thomas wrote: > > I am using Sendmail right now with Earthlink, if you want I can > > help get you straightened out. Here is a good web site to check out for > > help, specifically see the docs section and one particular article by > > Simone something. > > > > www.moongroup.org > > > > I map my local username to my yahoo name and send out my mail > > through Earthlink's SMTP mail server. Procmail works very easily with > > sendmail, just one line in your .mc file. > > > > Ian > > > > In the last episode, David Leimbach stated... > > > > > > I would like to rid myself of the really difficult to understand sendmail. > > > > > > > > > Does anyone know of any other program that can do the following: > > > > > > 1) Map local user names to my ISP email address. > > > dave@localhost dleimbac@earthlink.net > > > > > > 2) Work with procmail as a delivery agent. [filters] > > > 3) Relay my outgoing mail to an external SMTP server. > > > > > > > > > I like the fact that sendmail does all of these things but it is > > > ridiculously hard to understand what the configuration files mean. > > > > > > I have the current setup where I have to run a cron job to get > > > my outgoing mail delivered by doing sendmail -q. > > > > > > Its really irritating... If there is a major upgrade to sendmail > > > I won't be able to re-configure it! :) > > > > > > I used the install-sendmail Perl script I found on freshmeat.net to > > > get it configured as it is now... Unfortunately I have no clue what it > > > did. > > > > > > > > > Dave > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message