Joel Rosenberg wrote: > On Tuesday 23 July 2002 08:25 am, Bob Tanner wrote: > > Quoting Edson Alvarenga J. (ealvarenga at cableonda.net): > > > Hi, i want know how configure an mail server (sendmail) on > > > linux, and that version of sendmail use? > > > > All linux distributions come with or allow you to download sendmail. > > Although it can get confusing. Mandrake's default is postfix, with sendmail > emulation -- you can, of course, get sendmail and install it instead, or > perhaps on top of it, but I'm told that can be a lot of trouble. > With Redhat, it was easy to go the other way (sendmail to postfix). Just uninstall the sendmail rpm and install the postfix one. I'd imagine going the other way with Mandrake would be about as easy. I've never actually configured sendmail, so I can't give you a comparison, but postfix was a piece of cake to install. --Nathan Davis