----- Original Message ----- From: "Craig White" To: Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 6:33 PM Subject: Re: Amavis - Qmail -Debian > Nancy Sollars wrote: > > > > Sorry for the late reply ... > > > > To your question im not sure ... > > > > I had sendmail forwarding mail to an Exchange server things screw'd up alot > > .. I had to hack around alot in the sendmail.cf which most people would say > > forget it ... > > > > I would not under any circumstancies suggest using Exchange with any Linux > > based MTA, Exchange does some strange stuff on its own .. > > > > A problem u may find is .. if u do get it up and running ,, is with the > > notify feature that is someone puts that stupid tag of alert that the mail > > has been read by the recipient. It causes no end of problems i had mail > > bouncing around when ever anybody did this from either inside sending out or > > vice versa ,, > ----------- > this is silly. mail bounces because mail and/or dns isn't properly > configured - be it exchange/sendmail/qmail/groupwise etc. For load BS with the DNS configuration .. The send alert when recipient has opend the mail is an M$ idea put into Exchange Sendmail at the time i did this anti-virus solution did not support this M$ idea.. the exchange server was sending mail without the correct to: blah blah header so it was looping back to root and postmaster forever in a day because amavis was fireing round the loop on the 1st sendmail.cf file .... post fix and qmail under amavis i believe run 2 instancies of the mta that work togetther to recieve the mail then check it for viruses. the sendmail solution is simply 2 sendmail cf's one that recieves checks it gives it back to sendmail runs the normal second cf to send the mail on its way. > balancing, I have a large non-profit client that has sendmail on 2 > different servers - one accepts incoming mail, one handles outgoing mail > and all of the domain mail is forwarded to an internal Novell Groupwise > server - all of this configured in less than 2 hours and I had > absolutely no knowledge of Novell or Groupwise. > > I have no problems forwarding mail from one server to another - it is > done all the time in large organizations and it makes sense. > > There are a lot of anti-virus solutions for Exchange Server and if you > are gonna pay the money for all the Exchange Server user licenses, it > only follows that you should purchase an Exchange compliant anti-virus > solution. > > As for editing sendmail.cf - the recommended method is don't. You edit Seems to me like youve read the Sendmail back book to much ;P > sendmail.mc and then generate sendmail.cf files using the m4 utility. I > used to think sendmail was complicated - it isn't. I have set up > sendmail to handle multiple virtual domains and multiple ip addresses, > smtp authentication (really simple) and think that it's at the very > least - adequate. > > I have never set up Exchange Server and given the serviceability and > usefulness of open source mail servers, I am quite certain that I am not > likely to set many up but I am also certain that it is a very good mail > server. well we or you do not set the rules Exchange is used out there with open sourced material so really thats a little irrelevent > > All in all, I don't think the advice quoted above is very good advice. > > Craig well since my advice is based on a real life scenario i guess u dont have any grounds to judge, since this mail was not to you personally, I dont see why u posted any how if you had a problem with it you could simply delete it ... Nige > ________________________________________________ > See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >