On Sunday 04 Dec 2016 21:28:06 John Covici wrote: > On Sun, 04 Dec 2016 21:23:34 -0500, > > Harry Putnam wrote: > > Volker Armin Hemmann <[email protected]> writes: > > > Am 04.12.2016 um 20:09 schrieb Harry Putnam: > > > > > > is there a good reason you chose sendmail over postfix? Do you hate > > > yourself? You are a masochist? > > > > > > I found sendmail the worst piece of software I ever had to deal with. > > > Windows XP user&rights management in a mixed environment with shares is > > > delightful, writing bind config files or XFree86 configs by hand was > > > nice, easy and a joy compared to sendmail. > > > > All the above. If you are really into pain... where pulled > > fingernails are the lowest starter level ... sendmail is something > > I'd only dreamed about .... till now. > > > > OK, is there really nobody here that uses sendmail? > > > > I'm pretty sure the kind of immediate and complete failure I'm seeing > > is something horribly missconfigured and might not be that much to > > fix. If I could understand what is causing the fuss. > > I use it all the time with no problems. Did you do the -X or increase > the loglevel?
What John said. In addition, pay particular attention both to ownership and access rights for sendmail directories and config files. They should not be world accessible for obvious security reasons and in addition access.db and aliases.db files should be owned by root. -- Regards, Mick
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