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> (Brion Vibber <brion@pobox.com>):
> I've installed the latest security fix packages for sendmail, yet again.
> Any thoughts on switching to postfix or such?
>
> -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

I installed qmail on Piclab, I like it, and I'm willing to do that
on the Wikipedia server--but there are some catches:

- I'm not really much of a sysadmin; I'm a programmer. I can install
software, and bumble through routine maintenance, but most maintenance
will still fall on Jason, so his comfort level with the software is
important.

- The mailing lists all use mailman, and I've never installed
mailman over qmail (Piclab uses ezmlm).

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Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com> <http://www.piclab.com/lee/>
"All inventions or works of authorship original to me, herein and past,
are placed irrevocably in the public domain, and may be used or modified
for any purpose, without permission, attribution, or notification."--LDC

On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 01:39:35PM -0600, Lee Daniel Crocker wrote:
> > (Brion Vibber <brion@pobox.com>):
> > I've installed the latest security fix packages for sendmail, yet again.
> > Any thoughts on switching to postfix or such?
> >
> > -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
>
> I installed qmail on Piclab, I like it, and I'm willing to do that
> on the Wikipedia server--but there are some catches:
>
> - I'm not really much of a sysadmin; I'm a programmer. I can install
> software, and bumble through routine maintenance, but most maintenance
> will still fall on Jason, so his comfort level with the software is
> important.
>
> - The mailing lists all use mailman, and I've never installed
> mailman over qmail (Piclab uses ezmlm).

I'm using postfix for my mail services, it seems to work peachy keen.
Two thumbs up from me. :)

--
Nick Reinking -- eschewing obfuscation since 1981 -- Minneapolis, MN

Lee Daniel Crocker wrote:

> ...
> - I'm not really much of a sysadmin; I'm a programmer. I can install
> software, and bumble through routine maintenance, but most maintenance
> will still fall on Jason, so his comfort level with the software is
> important.

Maintenance? What's that? :) Honestly, I am against any mail software
that is going to require routine maintenance, unless you mean security
updates. Has Sendmail really been that bothersome?

>
> - The mailing lists all use mailman, and I've never installed
> mailman over qmail (Piclab uses ezmlm).
>...

I don't know how mailman handles it's outgoing mail (blast my
ignorance), but it receives incoming mail by alieasing the address as
"| mailman-wrapper listname". I assume that most mail delivery agents
are capable of such a thing. Really, I guess mailman could continue
to use sendmail for outgoing mail (assuming it uses it now).

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"Jason C. Richey" <jasonr@bomis.com>