Slightly OT: switching from Postfix to Sendmail

John Jolet john at jolet.net
Sat Feb 18 18:41:56 GMT 2006




On 2/6/06 11:19 PM, "smlists at masoncomputing.com"
<smlists at masoncomputing.com> wrote:

> Hi all. I've been running MailScanner/Mailwatch with Postfix on Fedora Core
> (now at 4) for quite a while now, and it's been great.
> However, I want to switch to Sendmail. I'm pretty sure I can find most of the
> settings in MailScanner.conf, and the Fedora system-switch-mail command should
> keep the rest of the system happy. That said, I'm a Netware/Windows guy, and
> not what I'd call an experienced Linux guy.
> Is there anything I'm forgetting, or any gotchas I should know about before I
> go ahead? 
>  
> Thanks,
>  
> Steve
> 
> 
> I AM an experienced linux/unix guy.  This is a bit of a religios thing, but
> you really don¹t want to switch from postfix to sendmail without a VERY
> compelling reason.  ESPECIALLY if you¹re not an experienced unix guy.
> 
> That said, when I switched from sendmail to postfix with that command, it
> failed to remove sendmail from the default runlevel start, and failed to put
> postfix in.  just make sure the correct mta is running.


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