On 04/07/00 16:22 +0530, Sthitaprajna spewed into the LI bitstream:
>There was a update from the ORA mailing list that they were working
>on a new Bat and Camel book, for the 8.10.X series. Dunno where the
Yeah, Bat for sendmail, not out yet. The Camel book (for PERL 5) has been
released already I think (haven't seen a copy here though).
>Docs for most of the MTAs, which are available at the above
>sendmail.*** sites are mirrored at http://www.moongroup.org, along
Yeah, Chuck Meat of Moongroup has done a great job ...
>with docs for other MTAs like Postfix and Exmh. I remeber seeing mail
Err.... 'Exim' is the MTA (or Mail Transfer Agent / Mailserver). Exmh is
Extended X MH (an X based interface to read MH format mailboxes) - rather
a tough beast to configure as every damned config file is in TCL code ;)
>related RFCs there as well. Also, take a look at mh and Jerry Peek's
>online ORA book.
MH is again a mail (sending|user) agent + mailbox format ... not a mail
transfer agent (which listens on port 25).
>Given the number of patches and exploits that you have to keep up
>with in administering Sendmail, I'd say Postfix is a very good
Postfix is good, exim is good as well ... but sendmail (the newer ones at
least) are not a pain, as long as you keep up with the latest 31337 ]-[4x
that keep popping up ;)
Again, these blasted hacks are distro specific - anything below 8.12 on an
older linux kernel was shown to have a r00t exploit. Sendmails on other
unices (such as sun) are not affected by it ...
So you can't just blame sendmail for it, you know. Also, sendmail's
authors are quite fast at patching things.
The other mailers like postfix / exim etc also have their share of hacks,
and are kept updated for that very reason.
>option. Excellent documentation and straight forward configuration,
>and it runs as fast. QMail is one software that gave me a pain.
>Anyone on this list using Qmail and happy with it?
If you can config qmail, you can config anything ;) I tried it once,
dropped it after a while.
Still, there's a _lot_ of sendmail / qmail / postfix etc stuff available -
boilerplate config files for example. Even preconfigured and customized
rpms for different situations, when otherwise you'd have to be editing
makefiles or feeding a few dozen options to ./configure :)
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