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Article #624Re: Changing from Sendmail to Postfix on a Cobalt Raq-4i - feasible?
From: Martin Smith
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 12:41
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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