[Gllug] RH 8.0 Sendmail Configuration

[Sean Burlington]

Doug Winter wrote:
> On Wed 22 Jan Mick Farmer wrote:
> 
>>I still can't get my sendmail configuration to work!  Whenever
>>I send mail, I get the following error.
>>
>>mick... Connecting to localhost.dcs.bbk.ac.uk. via relay...
>>mick... Deferred: Connection refused by localhost.dcs.bbk.ac.uk.
>>
>>What I need to do is transfer all mail to our hub mailer.dcs.bbk.ac.uk.
> 
> 
> If you haven't got any particular investment in sendmail, you might want
> to look at using different MTA software, perhaps exim, postfix or qmail.
> Sendmail is particularly unintuitive to configure, in me experience.
> 
> exim is a doddle to set up, if you rtfm.  qmail is good too, but because
> of it's strange licensing it is effectively unsupported now.  postfix
> looks very good, but i've not tried it.
> 

postfix has the advantage of having official redhat support

http://www.redhat.com/support/resources/howto/RH-postfix-HOWTO/c76.html

I have found it quite easy to configure as a home-use mail server

-- 

Sean


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