On 4 Jul 00, at 16:33, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:

> 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 ;)

Ugh..thanks. I seem to have messed up too much here. Probably as a 
result of trying to get up the latest Exmh from the tarball. Are any 
RPMs available? Three cheers for Tcl, it is somethin I LOVE. Get 
Brent Welch's book, 3e..

> So you can't just blame sendmail for it, you know.  Also, sendmail's
> authors are quite fast at patching things.

You can say that again...I managed to configure sendmail for the 
first time at office last week...postfix was far far easier. Problem 
is the sysadmin at office wanted sendmail to run on the mail server.

> If you can config qmail, you can config anything ;)  I tried it once,
> dropped it after a while.

What!! I better lift up my collar an inch and a half....that was what 
I did, except that it took so much B/W that it was taken off. With it 
went dreams of being the one who'd get Bernstein's challenge 
$10000greenbacks;>
 
> boilerplate config files for example.  Even preconfigured and customized

What is a "boilerplate" config file?


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