On Monday 19 April 2010 20:19:16 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Monday 19 April 2010 16:49:34 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? > > Yes. Centos/RedHat et al. The installer has a screen to let you choose, but > if you click-click-click-Yes through it like most numbnuts will, sendmail > is what you get. > > How do I know this? Because I fought valiantly with one of them today. > > I took me 90 minutes to figure out how to add a SmartHost.
Ha, ha! You should have asked in this M/L! ;-) > Vogon poetry is > a delight compared to those damn .cf files. And the .mc's aren't much > better. .cf files are strictly for hackers, well, <aheam> I meant sendmail hackers. ;-) The problem is that you'll spend an hour or two setting it all up, it'll work, you'll never touch it again. Then, two years later something will require you to reconfigure it and there will be no way on this earth that you will remember what you did or why it made any sense at the time! Ha, ha! :-)) -- Regards, Mick
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