Subject: Re: Sendmail help
From: Don Clouse (w8pee@m-net.arbornet.org)
Date: Sun Aug 12 2001 - 17:40:30 MDT
Ive been following along on this exchange. I throught the ftp and the cd
snapshot-20010808 and when I issued "make" I got "bash: make: command not
found"
Where do I go from this point?
I have a Blue G3 running YD2.
Thank You.
Don
On Saturday 11 August 2001 03:41, you wrote:
> On 8/11/01 4:15 PM, "Brian Watson" <bcwatso1@uiuc.edu> wrote:
> > What do you recommend to use as an SMTP server? I want something
> > that's I can configure and maintain without much hassle. Sendmail
> > doesn't seem very good.
>
> Postfix is generally pretty easy to maintain and configure. I've been using
> it on several YDL, Mandrake and RedHat boxes now for about 2+ years without
> issues.
>
> <http://www.postfix.org/>
>
> It's Sendmail compatible enough to work with other software without any
> modifications but has human readable/configurable configuration files.
>
> Source is available here:
>
> <ftp://postfix.rootr.net/experimental/snapshot-20010808.tar.gz>
>
> To download and compile:
>
> wget ftp://postfix.rootr.net/experimental/snapshot-20010808.tar.gz
> tar -zxvf snapshot-20010808.tar.gz
> cd snapshot-20010808
> make
> su
> /usr/sbin/adduser -d /var/spool/postfix -M postfix
> make install <- you can safely just use the defaults and hit enter
> vi|pico|emacs /etc/postfix/main.cf
> /usr/sbin/postfix start
>
> It compiles, installs and runs just fine on my YDL 2.0 box - I just
> followed my own instructions and did it to make sure it was all correct.
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