Configuring Sendmail?

If you want to try another BSD and fbsd didn't work, try netbsd-- it installs on just about anything. BTW, consider yourself lucky Solaris didn't install.

I'd say OSX is unix. It's like NeXTstep, which is said to be Jobs's favorite OS ever, and so OSX was supposed to be an evolution of that.

It's all UNIX to me, except for Windows which is a VMS core. Or so I understand. Jesus I hate VMS...

what do you mean by it didn't work? like, it didn't do anything? or after it completed without errors, you tried running make again and make failed?
in order to run configure, there has to be a configure program inside of the file you're trying to make. there should also be some sort of information included on how to compile, such as a file called README or INSTALL. look for one of these files and see if they can help you get it

I tried to use the configure command:
$ ./configure
-bash: ./configure: No such file or directory

$ ls
AAAREADME examples IPv6-ChangeLog Makefile.in postfix-install RELEASE_NOTES-2.1 TLS_TODO
auxiliary HISTORY lib Makefile.init proto RELEASE_NOTES-2.2 US_PATENT_6321267
bin html libexec man README_FILES src
COMPATIBILITY implementation-notes LICENSE mantools RELEASE_NOTES TLS_ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
conf include makedefs pflogsumm-conn-delays-dsn-patch RELEASE_NOTES-1.1 TLS_CHANGES
COPYRIGHT INSTALL Makefile PORTING RELEASE_NOTES-2.0 TLS_LICENSE

No configure in root directory.

The readme files don't say anything about using configure, I was just trying the suggestion...

READ_ME install -

To build with GCC, or with the native compiler if people told me that is better
for your system, just cd into the top-level Postfix directory of the source
tree and type:

% make


My result

$ make
make -f Makefile.in MAKELEVEL= Makefiles
(echo "# Do not edit -- this file documents how Postfix was built for your machine."; /bin/sh makedefs) >makedefs.tmp
/bin/sh: makedefs.tmp: No such file or directory
make: *** [Makefiles] Error 1
make: *** [Makefiles] Error 2

hm..i may just have to give nbsd a try. and yea..i was never too excited about solaris so it not installing was just like God saying "dont even go there dude" lol
but i thought windows xp had a unix kernel as the core? at least thats what my operating system concepts teacher said.. =\ i dont like being lied to. lol
..whats VMS?
and yea, OSX is Unix. at least in the pants, hahah.




lunaray: did you ever try yum install postfix ?
or even, yum search postfix ?

What's yum?

lol.. package management system. it may not exist on a default install, i've never experienced RHEL but i think they include it in CentOS which is RHEL but free :] lol but otherwise, have you tried using whatever package management / system updater & installer that RHEL comes with?

I've never heard of such a thing, can you expand on that? Where would I find that? Do I need to use the gui for that? Please, I'm SO new to Linux it's not funny!

I looked into setting up sendmail, there sure are a bunch of directories to create... You would think this would be easier to do!

Do you think the 2 errors I got when attempting the install will keep it from working? Has anyone ever seen these errors?