I am not an email server guru and do not play one on TV.
I would appreciate opinions about migrating away from sendmail.
Based on
flaws with sendmail booting on some 14.2 systems, I am thinking about alternatives. Two work-arounds are mentioned in the original thread. Another work-around is not mentioned -- replacing sendmail.
Replacements seem to be postfix, exim, or a light weight server such as ssmtp or msmtp.
I looked on the Slackware wiki and found nothing related about those mail services.
For job related reasons I would not mind learning a smidgen about postfix, but I need a link or two about migrating. The traditional recommendation is remove the sendmail package when installing postfix, although some people have developed tweaks to keep both installed. To test postfix I would remove sendmail, but are there any sendmail config file options I should copy to the postfix files?
I like simplicity too -- if anybody is using a different approach or light weight MTA then please share.
Usage details: In my home network I long have used sendmail and Slackware. I only use sendmail to shuffle my private network system mails. I send myself mails and alerts to monitor all systems. All mails on all systems are stored in /var/spool/mail and forwarded to the same on the server. I use mail(x) and scripts to send and receive the system mails. For my public facing emails I use Thunderbird and connect to external mail servers. I use Thunderbird to fetch the local mails.
Thanks again.