On Sun, 29 Jul 2007 at 11:36 -0600, Andy Bradford wrote: > Thus said Michael L Torrie on Sat, 28 Jul 2007 11:04:34 MDT: > > > > Would you expect sendmail replacements (qmail, postfix, etc...) to > > > be able to understand sendmail.cf? :-) > > > > That's a fallacious comparison when it comes right down to it. > > How so? You are claiming that for djbdns to be a BIND replacement it > must read BIND zone files. How is that different from claiming that for > something to be a sendmail replacement (the most common MTA on the > Internet) that it must understand sendmail.cf?
There is a difference. Nobody cares about the sendmail config files, in fact everyone despises them. But all those sendmail replacements do all the necessary things to drop in where sendmail was (with their own config files), like /etc/aliases, the wacky sendmail binary with it's myriad bizarre switches, etc. They emulate sendmail in the ways that matter. Postfix (can) uses its own little db format that makes things faster, but retains compatibility with the /etc/aliases format (perhaps you need to run postmap on it, by way of the newaliases command, but iirc sendmail had a similar setup). If it didn't we'd rightfully call it lunacy. -- Hans Fugal ; http://hans.fugal.net There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself. -- Johann Sebastian Bach
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