[ale] postfix settings

[James P. Kinney III]

On Fri, 2004-07-30 at 23:10, Geoffrey wrote:
> James P. Kinney III wrote:
> > On Fri, 2004-07-30 at 22:15, Geoffrey wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >>You know, when you pay big bucks for RH Enterprise Workstation, you'd 
> >>think the install would be smart enough to install only one mta...
> >>
> >>Removed sendmail, restarted postfix, bingo...
> > 
> > 
> > Sendmail is still the default MTA for RH. You have to jump through hoops
> > to install Postfix extra. There is a switching app
> > redhat-config-switchmail (?) that will let you select your default MTA.
> 
> I should have known this, but I still maintain that RHWS shouldn't let 
> you install two MTAs, it doesn't make any sense, unless someone knows 
> otherwise.

They already get yelled at for having such a poor implementation of KDE.
:) I'm surprised they have 2 myself. The only way to install it during
an install is to select it or select "install all". None of the preset
installs have postfix.

Actually having sendmail installed in the default RH way for a
workstation is pretty small and safe. It is used only to transfer mail
out from the workstation and move messages around on the workstation.
Postfix would be a bit larger and more complex for simple stuff like
this that sendmail. 

Of course the postfix docs don't require the demise of an entire forest
to print...


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