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On Monday, August 08, 2016 06:55:40 PM Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> On 08/08/2016 12:29, Konstantin wrote: |
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> > Hello Guys |
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> > I need to install postfix and exim at the same Gentoo server. |
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> Why? |
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> You either have them running on different ports (mighty unusual) or, |
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> more likely or different NICs. |
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> So put them on two different machines. Hardware is dirt cheap and unless |
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> you are a huge corporate an average Samsung S5 phone can fill most mail |
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> needs. Or as Neil suggested, make one machine a VM |
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Hardware is cheap, but electricity adds up and more than makes up for it. |
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I agree with Neil, though; virtualization is in order in this circumstance. |
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MTAs are very much not designed to be clever enough to coexist on the same |
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host. |
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A better solution still would likely be figuring out why 2 MTAs are necessary |
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and figure out how to configure a single MTA to handle the role of both, if at |
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all possible. |
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:wq |
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