Re: Sun doesn't have an emailer app?
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It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 31740
interpreted = N
texte = on 5/11/00 12:33 AM, Andrew Vernon at avernon@dramatools.net wrote:> Unix systems use the operating system's mail service, usually > /usr/sbin/sendmail. The art, science and voodoo of administering this beast > as well beyond the scope of this list. Nay, there's been dozens of books and > hundreds of white papers on the subject. If you or your system admin has > sendmail already running (and it's almost a sure thing you do) you shouldn't > even have to worry with it.That said, and after watching many a person have nightmare problems (security wise) in the past with sendmail, I would recommend looking into qmail http://www.qmail.org/ much more robust, and A LOT more secure in the long and short of things. Or if you are already running a dedicated SMTP server on another box, look into nullmailer, its a secure, small footprint SMTP relay daemon so you don't have to worry about configuring a full blown SMTP server just to process email from cgi's or Webcatalog on a dedicated web box. http://em.ca/~bruceg/nullmailer/ (I believe, strip out the /nullmailer/ for a full list of great email related utilities for *nix systems.------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list
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on 5/11/00 12:33 AM, Andrew Vernon at avernon@dramatools.net wrote:> Unix systems use the operating system's mail service, usually > /usr/sbin/sendmail. The art, science and voodoo of administering this beast > as well beyond the scope of this list. Nay, there's been dozens of books and > hundreds of white papers on the subject. If you or your system admin has > sendmail already running (and it's almost a sure thing you do) you shouldn't > even have to worry with it.That said, and after watching many a person have nightmare problems (security wise) in the past with sendmail, I would recommend looking into qmail http://www.qmail.org/ much more robust, and A LOT more secure in the long and short of things. Or if you are already running a dedicated SMTP server on another box, look into nullmailer, its a secure, small footprint SMTP relay daemon so you don't have to worry about configuring a full blown SMTP server just to process email from cgi's or Webcatalog on a dedicated web box. http://em.ca/~bruceg/nullmailer/ (I believe, strip out the /nullmailer/ for a full list of great email related utilities for *nix systems.------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/
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