> > If you are using this for a home machine and your ISP provides your > > email account, you can turn sendmail off. The email client with > > Mozilla or the one with Firefox (is it Thunderbird?) can talk to > > your isp's POP server just like outlook express did on windows. > > You can avoid the headaches of mail administration all together. > ---- > not entirely sure how one thing affects the other > > sendmail is an MTA - it is a transport agent > > POP3 is a client protocol - has nothing to do with MTA > > sendmail/postfix running on local system means that local mail - i.e. > local error & logs are sent to root or whomever is aliased to root as > either a local user or to another server > > a more intelligent method - I believe that you refer to it as > 'headaches > of mail administration' would be to use fetchmail to retrieve > your email > and provide local delivery that you could use from local computers set > up as an IMAP account - this having distinct advantages of > running your > own procmail scripts to sort/screen email - use spamassassin &/or > various anti-virus implementations such as clamav to > block/filter email. > You could see the same email from different mail client programs, > different computers, etc. but this would require something > like dovecot > to be installed & configured (dovecot is an IMAP & POP3 server). SOME > mail clients allow you to use a 'local' mail store, thereby > removing the > need to set up IMAP/POP3 service but this tends to be a 1 > application, 1 > machine solution. > > Of course, as you suggest, you can configure most any email client to > use a POP server and an SMTP server and not deal with the > 'headaches' as > you put it. I don't see how in this situation, any advantage is gained > by shutting sendmail off - or by installing/using postfix. > > Craig > The point I was making was, unless you have a good reason to do so, there is no need to set up a mail transport. If you are setting up your own domain locally so you can receive mail at me@xxxxxxxxxxxx then you need a mail transport agent. If you are just settin up a Linux box for personal use and getting mail via me@xxxxxxx or whatever is acceptable, you do not need a mail transport agent. Since the original post was titled, "first time Fedora for me, any tips?", I am assuming a desktop machine and not a mail server. If I were building a windows box, the user would just point outlook express to the ISP's mail server, or the internal one if it is in a company and leave it at that. Linux is capable of working the same way. First time through, I recommend making things as simple as possible. I think we were making different assumptions about what the box was going to do. Bob Styma
