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  • What linux distro for sendmail ?

    From John Levine@21:1/5 to All on Mon May 22 20:06:39 2023
    I'm going to be migrating sendmail from an antique unsupported linux
    VPS to a shiny new one. Any linux distros I should look for or avoid?
    Since I am a lazy programmer I would like one where I can install
    the standard packages ahd have a reasonably up to date sendmail I
    can tweak. It's in a private cloud and I don't think they have
    strong opnions about which ones they support.

    If it matters, it's sending a fairly high volume of notifications,
    about a million and a half a day, outgoing only. (No, it's not spam,
    it's all "log in and look at this thing you asked us to tell you
    about.")

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    Regards,
    John Levine, johnl@taugh.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
    Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. https://jl.ly

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  • From John McCue@21:1/5 to John Levine on Mon May 22 20:37:48 2023
    John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> wrote:
    I'm going to be migrating sendmail from an antique unsupported linux
    VPS to a shiny new one. Any linux distros I should look for or avoid?

    Slackware 15.0 moved to use procmail by default, *but*
    on the DVD you can still install and activate sendmail
    from the extra directory. Ver 15 uses sendmail 8.17.1.

    Slackware 14.2, still supported, uses snedmail by default.

    Since I am a lazy programmer I would like one where I can install
    the standard packages ahd have a reasonably up to date sendmail I
    can tweak. It's in a private cloud and I don't think they have
    strong opnions about which ones they support.

    Slackware usually sticks to vanilla settings in packages.

    If it matters, it's sending a fairly high volume of notifications,
    about a million and a half a day, outgoing only. (No, it's not spam,
    it's all "log in and look at this thing you asked us to tell you
    about.")

    Should not matter, but it has been a while since I looked
    at other distros. AFAIK most distros moved away from
    sendmail.

    FWIW, you can get iso images from:

    https://mirrors.slackware.com/slackware/slackware-iso/

    Good Luck
    John

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  • From John Levine@21:1/5 to All on Mon May 22 20:44:02 2023
    According to John McCue <jmclnx@SPAMisBADgmail.com>:
    John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> wrote:
    I'm going to be migrating sendmail from an antique unsupported linux
    VPS to a shiny new one. Any linux distros I should look for or avoid?

    Slackware 15.0 moved to use procmail by default, *but*
    on the DVD you can still install and activate sendmail
    from the extra directory. Ver 15 uses sendmail 8.17.1.

    Do you mean procmail or postfix? Procmail is a delivery agent
    used with either postfix or sendmail.

    Slackware usually sticks to vanilla settings in packages.

    OK, tnx.

    --
    Regards,
    John Levine, johnl@taugh.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
    Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. https://jl.ly

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  • From John McCue@21:1/5 to John Levine on Mon May 22 22:36:15 2023
    John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> wrote:
    According to John McCue <jmclnx@SPAMisBADgmail.com>:
    John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> wrote:

    <snip>

    Do you mean procmail or postfix? Procmail is a delivery agent
    used with either postfix or sendmail.

    I mean postfix, was a cut/pase issue :)

    Slackware usually sticks to vanilla settings in packages.

    OK, tnx.


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  • From J.O. Aho@21:1/5 to John Levine on Tue May 23 08:35:18 2023
    On 5/22/23 22:06, John Levine wrote:
    I'm going to be migrating sendmail from an antique unsupported linux
    VPS to a shiny new one. Any linux distros I should look for or avoid?

    Any of the standard distributions should work, sendmail will not be by
    default installed, but an apt/yum install sendmail would remediate the
    issue.

    I tend to follow what the company mainly uses, this keeps things simpler
    for the others as they will be more used to the distro and understands
    how to work with it.

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    //Aho

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  • From Jonathan Siegle@21:1/5 to John Levine on Tue May 23 10:50:22 2023
    On Monday, May 22, 2023 at 4:08:20 PM UTC-4, John Levine wrote:
    I'm going to be migrating sendmail from an antique unsupported linux
    VPS to a shiny new one. Any linux distros I should look for or avoid?
    Since I am a lazy programmer I would like one where I can install
    the standard packages ahd have a reasonably up to date sendmail I
    can tweak. It's in a private cloud and I don't think they have
    strong opnions about which ones they support.

    Debian 12 comes out soon ( https://release.debian.org/ ) and comes with Sendmail 8.17.x ( https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/sendmail ).


    -Jonathan

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  • From Marco Moock@21:1/5 to All on Tue May 23 20:38:55 2023
    Am 23.05.2023 um 10:50:22 Uhr schrieb Jonathan Siegle:

    Debian 12 comes out soon ( https://release.debian.org/ ) and comes
    with Sendmail 8.17.x ( https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/sendmail
    ).

    8.17.1.9 is in 12, snapshot versions are usually not being
    published in Debian repositories and 8.17.2 isn't out yet.

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