uggg... postfix rhel6

[warlord-DPNOqEs/LNQ at public.gmane.org (Derek Atkins)]

Jarod Wilson <jarod-ajLrJawYSntWk0Htik3J/w at public.gmane.org> writes:

> On Nov 14, 2010, at 2:49 PM, Stephen Adler wrote:
>
>> Hi Blu,
>> 
>> I've just upgraded one of my basement servers to rhel6 from rhel5. All 
>> went well expect for sendmail or the lack of. It looks like postfix has 
>> replaced sendmail.
>
> Only as the default mta. *LOTS* of people have been clamoring for
> that change for years. In other words, uggg... sendmail. ;)

Personally I find configuring sendmail much easier than configuring
postfix for certain simple configurations.  I'm sure more complicated
configurations are easier in postfix.  I'm currently running both at
home.

>> All I want to do is setup a sendmail "smarthost" 
>> equivalent so that the mail gets routed through a different server I 
>> have. Is there a short howto out there on this?
>
> Off the top of my head:
>
> yum install sendmail
> alternatives --config mta
> yum remove postfix

Can't you just: yum install sendmail; yum remove postfix?  Or is the
intermediate "alternatives" step absolutely necessary?

-derek

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