[ydl-gen] Setting up sendmail to send mail (via SMTP)

[Eric Dunbar]

On 17/08/06, Christopher Murtagh <christopher.murtagh at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/16/06, Eric Dunbar <eric.dunbar at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello all, I'm trying to make my server a little more user-friendly for my
> > friends and for that to  happen I need to add the ability for the server to
> > SEND mail.
>
>  Userfriend and sendmail ususally don't go hand in hand. :-) Is there
> a reason why you're using sendmail instead of Postfix? One of the
> reasons why I *love* YDL is because it uses Postfix as the default
> MTA, I've stopped using sendmail years ago.

I thought sendmail was the default since that's what (I thought)
Gallery and pine were using.

BTW I'm a tad confused b/c I thought postfix and sendmail were
distinct entities but from the postfix man page...

"POSTFIX(1)

NAME
       postfix - Postfix control program

SYNOPSIS
       postfix [-Dv] [-c config_dir] command

DESCRIPTION
       This command is reserved for the superuser. To submit mail, use
the Postfix sendmail command."

Is postfix's sendmail distinct from sendmail ;-P?

>  If you want to use Postfix, here's what you need to do:

Thank you for the info. Your informative e-mail is now filed in my
list of 'must keeps' for future reference. At the moment, sendmail
seems to be chugging along, and I think that it's "locked down" to
prevent access as an open relay.