[Mailman-Users] Mailman's Host Name & sendmail's Virtual Users

[Keith Mastin]

>At 03:00 PM 2/16/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>
>>Hope I'm not too far out of line here, but I gotta say it. If this is your
>>first mail server, you might find that postfix is easier to setup and
>>understand. Virtual tables make a lot more sense and you can edit the
>>config file (main.cf) directly rather than running it through m4.
>>
>>What you are trying to do can be done in postfix in about a minute, by
>>creating one file, adding a line or two to the main.cf file and running
>>postfix reload. (As long as you dns is set up correctly, that is.)
>
>Thanks, Keith.  Postfix sounds intriguing.
>
>This *is* the first *mail* server I've set up--although I've been involved 
>with listservers for over a decade.  (I'm a recent Linux convert.)  I've 
>heard horror stories about sendmail.  So, I'm definitely not wedded to it.
>
>I browsed by www.postfix.org and saw that there also seem to be some MySQL 
>connections for Postfix, which makes it even more intriguing.
>
>Do you happen to know if Postfix and RedHat 8 play well together?
>
>Thanks for the tip.

I haven't installed Redhat-8.* yet, but AFAIK postfix is included as an 
rpm in the packages. You will need to rpm -e sendmail* to get it to work, 
but from there on in it's a drop-in replacement with a good support list.

HTH