Sounds great. Although I'm not sure that the words "safe, reliable mail server" and "Sendmail" belong in the same sentence. "Postfix" probably does. While there may be a certain amount of overlap, I suspect that it will be lots easier to follow if you make two completely separate documents. The overlap can be mostly conveniently handled by copy-and-paste. And if you release the Postfix one first and wait a few months, there might not be any demand for a Sendmail version :-)At 16:45 1/2/2004, you wrote:
> I doubt it's the best, but I wrote it and I like it and it's probably all
> you need as a starting place:
>
> http://www.simpaticus.com/linux/sendmail-smtp-auth-howto.php
>
Yes, I think this is a good one, I liked it.
But I think _maybe_ you could update it according to our correspondence
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2003-December/msg01035.html http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2003-December/msg01071.html
I have every intention of doing so, Cristoph. Your comments and experience are going to be very valuable, and indeed I have saved copies of those emails. <smile>
However, Benjamin Weiss and I are now cooperating on a "Simple Mailserver HOWTO" with greater scope. The idea is to teach someone how to take a "bare metal" Fedora box and build it into a safe, reliable mail server (SMTP/POP3/IMAP) with encrypted logins, spam reduction, and anti-virus scanning; and to do this with the user's choice of either Sendmail or Postfix.
Since the job is significantly larger than the one I already finished, I've frozen development of the Sendmail SMTP AUTH HOWTO and will concentrate on bringing all this new material to the new document so that we can get a first version put together and published ASAP.
Cheers,
-- Fritz Whittington It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err. (Mahatma Gandhi)
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