Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com writes:
On Tuesday 20 April 2010 15:53:01 Harry Putnam wrote:
I think you all are missing something... sendmail is better documented
than any of the other pretenders.
One has to understand what the various MTAs out there were built to do, and
what
Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com writes:
Internet mail is quite complex, yes.
This statement is the source of the confusion surrounding sendmail.
Internet mail is not complex, it is stunningly simple:
mail comes in,
look up where it should go,
send it there
[...]
Egad, I had no
On Tuesday 20 April 2010 15:53:01 Harry Putnam wrote:
I think you all are missing something... sendmail is better documented
than any of the other pretenders.
One has to understand what the various MTAs out there were built to do, and
what their feature list is:
sendmail comes from ancient
On Tuesday 20 April 2010 17:51:12 Harry Putnam wrote:
Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com writes:
On 2010-04-20, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote:
About all the snipes concerning hacking sendmail.cf... I'm sure you
are all aware that any hacking needs to happen in sendmail.mc...
On 2010-04-21, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tuesday 20 April 2010 15:53:01 Harry Putnam wrote:
I think you all are missing something... sendmail is better documented
than any of the other pretenders.
One has to understand what the various MTAs out there were built to do,
I think you all are missing something... sendmail is better documented
than any of the other pretenders.
Now understand, that I am easily the dullest knife in the drawer on
this list even though by unix/linux standards I'm fairly long in the
tooth having started my computing skills in 1996 and
Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com writes:
On 2010-04-20, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote:
About all the snipes concerning hacking sendmail.cf... I'm sure you
are all aware that any hacking needs to happen in sendmail.mc... then
let m4 sort out sendmail.cf.
IOW, sendmail has a
On 2010-04-20, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote:
Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com writes:
On 2010-04-20, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote:
About all the snipes concerning hacking sendmail.cf... I'm sure you
are all aware that any hacking needs to happen in sendmail.mc...
On 2010-04-20, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote:
About all the snipes concerning hacking sendmail.cf... I'm sure you
are all aware that any hacking needs to happen in sendmail.mc... then
let m4 sort out sendmail.cf.
IOW, sendmail has a configuration file so incomprehensible that the
On 20 Apr 2010, at 14:53, Harry Putnam wrote:
I think you all are missing something... sendmail is better documented
than any of the other pretenders.
...
Unless, I'm terribly misinformed, sendmail is still the most commonly
used mta in the unix world of servers.
I would be surprised if it
On 19 Apr 2010, at 22:50, Mick wrote:
...
The problem is that you'll spend an hour or two setting it all up,
it'll work,
you'll never touch it again. Then, two years later something will
require you
to reconfigure it and there will be no way on this earth that you will
remember what you
On 2010-04-18 6:27 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote:
On Sunday 18 April 2010 22:06:44 Mick wrote:
I was reminded that I do not understand sendmail enough for my liking.
Does anybody?
flame-protect
That's why Wietse invented postfix.
/flame-protect
--
Charles
On 2010-04-19, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote:
On 2010-04-18 6:27 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote:
On Sunday 18 April 2010 22:06:44 Mick wrote:
I was reminded that I do not understand sendmail enough for my liking.
Does anybody?
flame-protect
That's why Wietse invented postfix.
On Monday 19 April 2010 15:49:34 Grant Edwards wrote:
On 2010-04-19, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote:
On 2010-04-18 6:27 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote:
On Sunday 18 April 2010 22:06:44 Mick wrote:
I was reminded that I do not understand sendmail enough for my liking.
Does anybody?
On Monday 19 April 2010 16:49:34 Grant Edwards wrote:
On 2010-04-19, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote:
On 2010-04-18 6:27 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote:
On Sunday 18 April 2010 22:06:44 Mick wrote:
I was reminded that I do not understand sendmail enough for my liking.
Does anybody?
On Monday 19 April 2010 21:07:47 Mick wrote:
On Monday 19 April 2010 15:49:34 Grant Edwards wrote:
On 2010-04-19, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote:
On 2010-04-18 6:27 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote:
On Sunday 18 April 2010 22:06:44 Mick wrote:
I was reminded that I do not understand
On 2010-04-19, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote:
On Monday 19 April 2010 15:49:34 Grant Edwards wrote:
On 2010-04-19, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote:
On 2010-04-18 6:27 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote:
On Sunday 18 April 2010 22:06:44 Mick wrote:
I was reminded that I do not
On 2010-04-19, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote:
On Monday 19 April 2010 16:49:34 Grant Edwards wrote:
On 2010-04-19, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote:
On 2010-04-18 6:27 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote:
On Sunday 18 April 2010 22:06:44 Mick wrote:
I was reminded that I do not
On Monday 19 April 2010 20:19:16 Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Monday 19 April 2010 16:49:34 Grant Edwards wrote:
On 2010-04-19, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote:
On 2010-04-18 6:27 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote:
On Sunday 18 April 2010 22:06:44 Mick wrote:
I was reminded that I do not
On Monday 19 April 2010 20:20:27 you wrote:
On Monday 19 April 2010 21:07:47 Mick wrote:
On Monday 19 April 2010 15:49:34 Grant Edwards wrote:
On 2010-04-19, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote:
On 2010-04-18 6:27 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote:
On Sunday 18 April 2010 22:06:44 Mick
Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com writes:
For the purpose of posterity:
The way to set up a fall back host is to use confFALLBACK_SMARTHOST to define
a fall back smtp server.
Thanks Mick... Instead of asking for help, you ended up giving help.
Did someone answer your question privately?
On Sunday 18 April 2010 16:14:50 Harry Putnam wrote:
Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com writes:
For the purpose of posterity:
The way to set up a fall back host is to use confFALLBACK_SMARTHOST to
define a fall back smtp server.
Thanks Mick... Instead of asking for help, you ended up
On Sunday 18 April 2010 22:06:44 Mick wrote:
I was reminded that I do not understand sendmail enough for my liking.
Does anybody?
--
Rgds
Peter.
On Saturday 17 April 2010 00:51:39 Harry Putnam wrote:
comp.mail.sendmail
Thank you Harry, I will. Just thought that there may be a Gentoo user who's
already tried this - plus this is my favorite list alright. ;-)
--
Regards,
Mick
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On Saturday 17 April 2010 00:51:39 Harry Putnam wrote:
Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com writes:
Hi All,
Is there a (native) way to configure sendmail to send messages via a
secondary smtp account, if dor some reason the primary ISP smtp is
down, without some bespoke DIY script?
Not
Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com writes:
Hi All,
Is there a (native) way to configure sendmail to send messages via a
secondary smtp account, if dor some reason the primary ISP smtp is
down, without some bespoke DIY script?
Not give you the runaround, and there may well be some sendmail
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