Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 17:07:43 -0400 (EDT) From: "Ian P. Thomas" <ipthomas_77@yahoo.com> To: dleimbac@earthlink.net (David Leimbach) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Yanking Sendmail need something easier to understand Message-ID: <200106122107.RAA02196@scraemondaemon.my.domain> In-Reply-To: <20010612125045.A593@mutt.home.net> from "David Leimbach" at Jun 12, 2001 12:50:45 PM
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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
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