Re: Linuxconf

[Jules Bean <jmlb2@hermes.cam.ac.uk>]

On Tue, 2 Jun 1998, Rev. Joseph Carter wrote:
> > IMO, linuxconf should manage sendmail.mc rather than sendmail.cf. 
> 
> That would be more reasonable, however not all that sendmail can do is
> supported with the m4 rules and such.  Not at the moment at least.  Sendmail
> is their selling point because of how complex it is, how little m4 helps and
> how much they can do with it.  The motivation for the project is that
> sendmail if easy to configure could sell linux and the opensource paradigm
> to a few people.  This is good.
> 
> The solution of course is to extend the m4 stuff to support all the things
> linuxconf does, but that's not so easy.  Also, note that slackware didn't at
> last look have m4 sendmailconfig.  Another example of where slackware is
> doing more harm than good these days by not adopting things the rest of the
> world has...  =p

This sounds foolish to me.

The solution is to switch to a better designed mailer (exim springs to
mind) with easier to manage configuration.

Jules

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