Once upon a midnight dreary, Scott D. Yelich had spoken clearly:
>Ya, I'm moving to djbware... mostly because I want to be able to
>support it when people ask me about it. But you know, sendmail *is*
>easier... That's not an insult -- that's just an opinion based on the
>amount of documentation that's available.
Sendmail is easier... Hmmmmm... for whom???
You??? Probably.
Me???? Not on your life.
Sendmail is the reason I switched to qmail... I once heard a reference to
the "ease of use" of Sendmail many, many moons ago... Sorry I cannot
remember the original author:
"The sendmail.cf file looks like an explosion at a punctuation factory."
By the time I figured out how to set up virtual domains (incorrectly - no
dox for it) in Suckmail, I started searching for something new in qmail.
Installed my first test server in under an hour, slightly longer to get it
right. Read docs for the next 2 weeks (and for those of you who were
b*tching about 1.03 dox; 0.96 were a *lot* more sparse), then put it into
production with less than 45 minutes downtime.
Er... and I got my Solaris admin job because I had OS/9 experience...
What little I couldn't figure out from the README's, I asked here on the
list... and I got a few RTFMAgain's, and some pointers, and *all* the
advice helped. (Tho, I never received the dreaded reply: "FAQ 5.4" :-)
My point for this tirade??? The dox may not be perfect, but they are
helpful if you read them, and read them, and read them again. Maybe I could
have been good with Suckmail with the right dox... trust me, tho; we'll
never know. ;^>
RTFM might sound rude to you... if it does, well, sorry... Just chalk it up
to a case of "sour medicine" and move on... maybe someday (after you've
been around for a few hundred requests) you'll just say "Go to
ftp://koobera.math.uic.edu/www/rblsmtpd.html, download it, untar it and RTFM."
:-)
Chin up,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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Roger "Merch" Merchberger --- sysadmin, Iceberg Computers
Recycling is good, right??? Ok, so I'll recycle an old .sig.
If at first you don't succeed, nuclear warhead
disarmament should *not* be your first career choice.
