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From: Max Gribov <max@neuropunks.org>
To: ycsapo@mines.edu
Cc: linux-admin <linux-admin@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: sendmail blues
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:51:35 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1257551495.18857.4195.camel@vader> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4AF49B12.8050405@exchange.mines.edu>

On Fri, 2009-11-06 at 14:54 -0700, Yuri Csapo wrote:
> Hi all, I've an unusual (for me) problem:
> - give up on sendmail and install exim or postfix or something that can be understood by someone who 
> hasn't read the Bat Book in the last 6 years and who is not particularly inclined to read it again.

well, if you install postfix you can make it listen on localhost only,
and have its queue connect to the right place.

ubuntu default postfix config from any installation has the correct
configuration, you just have to comment out these 2 lines:
default_transport = error
relay_transport = error

it should be a very easy install


> 
> Any other ideas?
> 
> TIA
> 
> Yuri
> 


  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-11-06 23:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-06 21:54 sendmail blues Yuri Csapo
2009-11-06 22:48 ` Gerardo Juarez-Mondragon
2009-11-06 23:51   ` Yuri Csapo
2009-11-06 23:51 ` Max Gribov [this message]
2009-11-06 23:53   ` Yuri Csapo
2009-11-07  0:08     ` Max Gribov
2009-11-07 11:10 ` Glynn Clements
2009-11-07 12:49   ` Yuri Csapo
2009-11-08  7:13     ` Glynn Clements

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