[CLUE-Tech] Sendmail problems: I'm going nuts.

[Adam Bultman]

Thanks for the tips, but, like many people, I've heard it all before,
wished I could, but I'm afraid I can't.  My teetery-tottery infrastructure
and busyness keep me from making any sorts of cool changes that I've been
lanning for the past 7 months.

I found my problems, by the way, and it was more or less a DNS and naming
issue.  I had host aaa nd host bbb, and I wanted the mail server to host
mail for both aaa and bbb, but I couldn't just make MX records for AAA and
BBB (it just didn't like it).

As for a replacement for sendmail, I woudl recommend qmail before Exim or
postfix. It's unbelievably secure, has easy to use front ends for
configuration, and hasn't had nearly as many holes as sendmail. It's
slated to be my next email server.

As well, djbdns is an excellent replacement for BIND. No holes, cool web
based front ends, the whole ball of wax.

Oh, well.  I won't start these wars, but just toss out my 2 cents.



On Fri, 23 Aug 2002, Matt Gushee wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 23, 2002 at 12:52:30PM -0400, Adam Bultman wrote:
> >
> > Hey everyone. I'm going nuts.
> >
> > any ideas?
>
> Yes. Get rid of sendmail and install a modern SMTP server like Postfix
> or Exim.
>
> I only run Exim for myself, so I'm not sure how good it is as a "real"
> mail server, but it is an awful lot easier to configure than sendmail.
> One of the reasons I switched from RedHat to Debian was that (at that
> time) sendmail was the default SMTP program for RH, and Exim was the
> default for Debian. I was completely fed up with sendmail config
> problems. I've been very satisfied with Exim, and even in the unlikely
> event that I go back to RedHat Linux, I am never, ever going back to
> sendmail, and that's a promise.
>
> The very technically savvy sysadmin at my last workplace like Postfix a
> lot.
>
>

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Adam Bultman
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