Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sendmail configuration

2020-11-27 Thread Grant Taylor
On 11/26/20 6:56 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: After trying to think of reasons to use sendmail, I beganto wonder if it still supports bang-routing and UUCP as a transport mechanism. A bit of googling seems to indicate that it does. Yes. I have used this a few times in the last 18 months. Mostly

[gentoo-user] Re: sendmail configuration

2020-11-26 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2020-11-26, antlists wrote: >[...] > So a fully-functional sendmail installation is the most powerful, > flexible mta there is out there. The snag is, most people only use 10% > of that power, but nobody can agree on which 10% is the most important. After trying to think of reasons to use

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sendmail configuration

2020-11-26 Thread antlists
On 26/11/2020 04:09, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2020-11-26, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: Thank you for input. Maybe that is why it is so hard to find good explanation/howto how to configure it. The config file looks very simple, that is I decided to try it. Ah, that's another devine

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sendmail configuration

2020-11-25 Thread Grant Taylor
On 11/25/20 9:02 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: O'Reilly's_Sendmail_ 4th Edition (the bat book), has 1312 pages and weighs four pounds. There is actually a much smaller book than the quintessential Bat book that is multiple orders of magnitude. IM(ns)HO the Sendmail Installation and Operation

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sendmail configuration

2020-11-25 Thread Grant Taylor
On 11/25/20 9:09 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: Ah, that's another devine mystery. I believe that the small size of a sendmail config file, when compared to the number of malfunctions it can create violates several basic tenants of information theory. I think the explanation involves extra

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sendmail configuration

2020-11-25 Thread Bhaskar Chowdhury
On 04:02 Thu 26 Nov 2020, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2020-11-26, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: I've always used postifx but I want to try sendmail this time. Appropos of nothing, might we ask why? I've heard there are things that you can do with sendmail that you can't do with postfix or exim

[gentoo-user] Re: sendmail configuration

2020-11-25 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2020-11-26, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > Thank you for input. Maybe that is why it is so hard to find good > explanation/howto how to configure it. The config file looks very > simple, that is I decided to try it. Ah, that's another devine mystery. I believe that the small size of a

[gentoo-user] Re: sendmail configuration

2020-11-25 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2020-11-26, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > I've always used postifx but I want to try sendmail this time. Appropos of nothing, might we ask why? I've heard there are things that you can do with sendmail that you can't do with postfix or exim or qmail, but the descriptions of what sorts of