On Fri, 02 May 2008 19:49:45 -0700, Chris Babcock wrote:

Two points:

>> How can postfix be used without my messages being tagged as spam?
>
Easiest is to send your mail via your ISP's mail server. Use the
relayhost directive to make Postfix send outgoing mail to it. The ISP
won't care whether the SMPT connection is from a mail reader or Postfix.

> For 10 emails a day, you're better off configuring postfix to use your
> ISP as a relay if they permit it or ditching the mail server completely
> if you always use a regular email client.
>
There's little point in you using Postfix unless you have a private LAN
and want to handle all mail via a central point. I route all mail
through a central MTA for two reasons:

1) I want logwatch reports from all machines on my LAN to be delivered
to my normal mailbox

2) I archive all mail sent and received on my LAN. This means that I can
keep my mail reader folders small and, because the archive is indexed,
its by far the fastest way to find any particular piece of mail.

Any MTA could do these jobs, but I use Postfix because its much easier to
configure than Sendmail. Besides, the O'Reilly Sendmail book is both
badly organised and incomplete: its the only bad O'Reilly book I've found.


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