[ale] postfix settings

[Kevin O'Neill Stoll]

There is a directory in /etc called alternative?, anyway it
is just a bunch of sym links to the MTA specific files,
objects etc...

redhat-config-alternative? just changes all of them for you
at the click of a button.

We just learned about it this last week in the RHCE class I
took. Hey look, it's already paid off :)


--- "James P. Kinney III" <jkinney at localnetsolutions.com>
wrote:

> 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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