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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Postfix seemed to be a bit more intuitive I guess. Of course, anything new is going to look daunting at first.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I started out with sendmail years ago. Never delved to deeply into it but was able to manage the macro files OK and get basic things like greet-pause working.
Never tried to edit a .cf file by hand. Extending Postfix looked to be easier than sendmail so when I was building the new servers I figured it was time to learn it.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">That and having followed the MailScanner discussion list for somewhere around 13 years now it seems that most folks were using sendmail or postfix with a handful
using Exim. I figure I had a better chance of getting help and finding wiki pages about setting up Postfix. Whether true or not I don’t know but that was my gut feeling.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I thought you were already a Exim fan. I tried to get mailborder up a couple years ago, but all the additional python stuff threw me for a loop. I stumbled
through it but then it was giving me some other errors finally cut my losses. It was configured for Exim IIRC…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">...Kevin<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Kevin Miller<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Network/email Administrator, CBJ MIS Dept.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">155 South Seward Street<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Juneau, Alaska 99801<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Phone: (907) 586-0242, Fax: (907) 586-4500 Registered Linux User No: 307357<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> MailScanner [mailto:mailscanner-bounces@lists.mailscanner.info]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Jerry Benton<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, February 17, 2016 2:51 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> MailScanner Discussion<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: Which distro?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Kevin,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I was actually thinking of switching from Postfix to Exim. What made you do the opposite? <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"><a href="http://www.mailborder.com">www.mailborder.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Feb 17, 2016, at 6:17 PM, Kevin Miller <<a href="mailto:kevin.miller@juneau.org">kevin.miller@juneau.org</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I’m running several MailScanner/MailWatch boxes on Debian Jessie. Works just fine. I did change the email server to Postfix from Exim but other than that
it was pretty seamless. <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Phone: (907) 586-0242, Fax: (907) 586-4500 Registered Linux User No: 307357</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> </span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">MailScanner
[<a href="mailto:mailscanner-bounces@lists.mailscanner.info">mailto:mailscanner-bounces@lists.mailscanner.info</a>]<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>On Behalf Of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></b><a href="mailto:egobrc@gmail.com">egobrc@gmail.com</a><br>
<b>Sent:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Wednesday, February 17, 2016 2:00 PM<br>
<b>To:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:mailscanner@lists.mailscanner.info">mailscanner@lists.mailscanner.info</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Which distro?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I am about to configure a new mail filter server based on MailScanner + MailWatch. Since I do not have any distro preferences or requirements, do you suggest a specific one? In the install guide Debian 8 is not mentioned (is it too recent?),
so I think I will choose between CentOS 7 and Ubuntu LTS 14: is there a best distro for MailScanner?<o:p></o:p></p>
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