[geeks] Sendmail question

[Jonathan C. Patschke]

On Sun, 26 Jan 2003, Joacim Melin wrote:

> I'm doing a transfer from an MS Exchange Server 2000-installation to
> Linux and sendmail. (don't think I have to explain why... :) )

Well, my questions would be "why Linux?" and "why Sendmail?" when nicer
alternatives to both exist.  IRIX and Postfix is my personal favorite
combination, but Solaris and Postfix is nice, too.  OpenBSD and Postfix
isn't bad, either.

> The fixed IP-address is registered to a specific hostname and my guess
> is that there will be trouble if the name in the DNS is dogbert and the
> new mailserver is named dilbert.. or whatever.

Why not name the server one thing while you're setting it up, and rename
it once it's time to switch over?

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