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Try Postfix instead
Authored by: the_saintz on Jun 06, '02 05:40:18PM

This is kind of asinine, seeing as you're talking about using Sendmail, but...

Since OS X's version of Sendmail has some flaws (slow, sometimes hangs/refuses to launch, etc.) I decided to try Postfix. There are good instructions I found at http://www.hmug.org/HowTos/postfix.html. Postfix is much faster (both at starting up and at actually sending), has better security (from what I can tell), and in general solved my problems with Sendmail. Although it's harder to configure than Sendmail, I think it's easier to configure Postfix than it would be to "Properly" configure the OS X version of Sendmail (so that it starts correctly and quickly everytime, doesn't get messed up when a new update comes out, doesn't get so picky about permissions but is still secure, etc.). It also didn't give me any trouble when I updated to 10.1.5. This might be a better long-term solution, therefore, if you can invest the hour to compile and config it.



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