[Chicago-talk] Help on Email server

[Brian Katzung]

Andy Lester wrote:
> On Jun 12, 2007, at 3:58 PM, tiger peng wrote:
> 
>> I mean running sendmail. Their boxes do not accept the connection,  
>> but I heard someone mentioned that there is a workarround and saw  
>> his box sent cron warning messages.
> 
> Then Google for the specific messages that you're having problems  
> with.  Failing that, ask here, but I suspect some cursory research in  
> Google will find the answer you're looking for.
> 
> Also, if you're doing this from scratch, I would recommend that you  
> NOT use sendmail, but use something like Postfix instead.

I've used sendmail extensively and postfix a little but my current 
preference is Exim. It could just be me, but I've personally found it to 
be more administrator-friendly in terms of testing configurations, 
generally "seeing into the system", etc. than postfix.

Just another option. YMMV

> xoxo,
> Andy

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Brian Katzung
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