[geeks] Favorite mailer

[Phil Brutsche]

On 04 Aug 2001 18:34:05 +0000, Kris Kirby wrote:
> I said setup, not run. :) I over looked a few problems in the config files
> by mistake. Fixed.

Been there, done that... :)

> I've been self-LARTing a lot lately; Wednesday, I temporarily deafened
> myself above 3KHz. Kids, it's a bad idea to turn the PA on with the mic
> wide open. While standing directy in front of the speakers. If I'm lucky,
> I haven't blown my tweeters, but my hearing hasn't been good enough lately
> to detect any problems.

Ouch.  That beats anything I've done.

> I'm really considering switching most of my mail operations to Postfix;

Do it.  Do it now.  Postfix needs infinitely less black magic to get it
to work than Sendmail does, not counting any sort of fancy
"customizations" you may want to make (like configuring SMTP AUTH).  The
fact that it's faster is secondary IMO.

> my mx3 is a stock Sparc IPX with 64MB of RAM and a 1G disk; it
> out-delivered my mx2, which is a P3-875/512M/30GB running Sendmail.

I knew Sendmail was slow but I didn't think it was *that* slow.

> Now if I can remember where I put that Sendmail book...

Unconsiously throw it in the dumpster at the first thought of getting
rid of Sendmail? :)


Phil