On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 05:10:27PM -0600, Phil Meyer wrote: > There is no wizard, currently, for sendmail. However, editing the > /etc/mail/sendmail.mc file, and generating a good sendmail.cf with make, > is almost trivial. Almost. A very scary word... > The various, many, and often obfuscated, options for postfix > configurations could, at present, never be managed in a GUI. Yes, and no. Not in a "step-by-step" GUI. However...see below. > I would state, without any desire to condescend or berate new users, > that sendmail and postfix are not tools for users, but are considered > administrative. Indeed. > An open email relay is almost always the result of uneducated tampering, > and constitutes a clear and present danger to all who use the Internet. Hmm...except, usually, the packages are sent out today with defaults that don't provide open relays. > For these, and other more well reasoned reasons, you may never see the > types of tools a new user would need to set up an email server. Well, not total noob tools. But Webmin does give a rather decent interface, some help, and prevents syntax errors that result in either non-functional sites or open relays (unless explicitly configured.) -- Dave Ihnat President, DMINET Consulting, Inc. dihnat@xxxxxxxxxx 773/550.0929 -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
