On Monday 19 April 2010 21:07:47 Mick wrote: > On Monday 19 April 2010 15:49:34 Grant Edwards wrote: > > On 2010-04-19, Tanstaafl <tansta...@libertytrek.org> wrote: > > > On 2010-04-18 6:27 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > >> On Sunday 18 April 2010 22:06:44 Mick wrote: > > >>> I was reminded that I do not understand sendmail enough for my > > >>> liking. > > >> > > >> Does anybody? > > > > > ><flame-protect> > > > > > > That's why Wietse invented postfix. > > > > > ></flame-protect> > > > > I gave up on sendmail about 12 years ago and switched to qmail and/or > > postfix. I didn't know anybody was still using sendmail. Is it the > > default MTA for any of the popular Linux distros? > > I am not sure if it is a default MTA but I have a CentOS server which comes > with it. I guess it's one of these masochistic things that either decide > to completely avoid learning (like emacs?!) or once you start you don't > want to let it beat you! :-))
I recall this old quip: You are not a real Unix sysadmin till you have written a sendmail.cf by hand. You are insane to attempt it twice. ;-) -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com