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Re: Changing from Sendmail to Postfix on a Cobalt Raq-4i - feasible?

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From: Martin Smith
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 12:41
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On Wed, 15 Jun 2005 10:10:15 +1000, Craig Dewick 
<cdewick@lios.apana.org.au> wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> I've got a few Cobalt server appliances and I'd like to dump sendmail and
> use Postfix instead as the MTA since Postfix has vastly better anti-spam
> and anti-malware features out of the box (and a lot more with the right
> run-time configuration).
>
> Sun's always stuck with sendmail since I presume that is what the Redhat
> Linux people have always preferred, but that comes at a big cost in terms
> of the lack of anti-spam defences.
>
> Has anyone replaced Sendmail on a Cobalt server with Postfix, and are
> there any web-references which contain good guides to doing this?

have a look at www.postfix.org you will probably find that profitable,
they run the postfix-users mailing list which I can personally recommend

>
> The eventual aim is to replace sendmail with Postfix then integrate
> Spamassasin into Postfix. I'm sure this has been done before, so I'm
> hoping that someone who has reads this and can provide some pointers. 8-)
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Regards,
>
> Craig.
>


-- 
Martin
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