Pierre Labastie wrote: > Hi, > > Recently, sendmail has been archived, (see ticket #4723). There has not > been a real discussion about that. The reason is that the current > building instructions do not lead to a functional package, although > Armin and Igor have tried to do so. Furthermore, there are alternatives > (exim4 and postfix), which are deemed better than sendmail anyway. OTOH, > I suppose that folks monitoring this list not all follow BLFS trac, and > it may be interesting to hear what they have to say. That is the purpose > of this thread.
I've built and used sendmail before. I do have the Bat book and once went to an all day seminar on it presented be Eric Allman, sendmail's author. It is quite a challenge to build and configure. It has roots in the 1970's and I believe it would be written quite differently today. That said, I don't have strong opinions about whether it is in the book or not. We may want to review it in a few days as we sort out other areas. I'm still showing about 100 packages that need to be tested (I'm working on KDE now, but my time is limited today). Perhaps we can re-look at it technically later in the week. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
