OT: building new server, need MTA advice

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Thu Feb 1 16:46:46 CET 2007


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Alex Neuman van der Hans wrote:
>
>
> Gerard Seibert wrote:
>> I would be interested in why you make that statement regarding 
>> Postfix. I
>> had used Sendmail for several years and found it confusing. Getting 
>> SASL,
>> etc working on it can be a real chore.
> SASL appears to work out-of-the-box on CentOS, at least for me. What 
> do you mean by " a real chore "?
I only thing I know is wrong on RedHat is that /etc/sysconfig/saslauthd says
MECH=shadow
where
MECH=pam
is enormously more useful in a distributed environment.
Other than that, it just works.

Jules

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