Re: Why isn't Sendmail standard (was: make anacron a base package)
"Steve Lamb" <morpheus@rpglink.com> writes:
> I run Exim at home, I had to run Sendmail at work. Here's the
> difference. I can do pretty much anything I want with Exim by just looking
> through the configuration file. If that doesn't help, then I go to the docs.
> Meanwhile I *HAVE* read the Bat book and am utterly frustrated with the
> configuration, even the M4 configuration, of sendmail. It is esoteric,
This is incorrect. /usr/doc/sendmail/cf.README.gz is your friend. I
run a mail server that currently relays mail for my domain, serves as
a backup for another domain, hosts several virtual domains, talks UUCP
to my laptop, etc. This is far more complex than most mail
configurations, and yet I have never once had to read the bat book for
information, and in fact, everything that I needed to do was
well-documented in cf.README.gz and very easy to apply.
> utterly incomprehensible, overly complex and utterly useless. Why anyone
Sendmail can do things that no other MTA can do. Period. Sendmail
means flexibility. Sendmail means power. Sendmail means the ultimate
in configurability. After all, isn't this what Unix and Linux is all
about?
My sendmail.mc file is very short. I then have a virtusertable,
mailertable, and some .cw, .ct, etc. files. It's not hard to find out
how to do things. You start with Debian's /usr/sbin/sendmailconfig
and answer the questions. Then you look at the sendmail.mc file, and
look up anything that you don't understand in cf.README. What's so
hard about that?
> would *WANT* to use Sendmail is beyond me. Furhter, how sendmail.com figures
> they can put Sendmail into an appliance is also beyond me because they would
> have to rewrite the entire configuration to be usable before doing that.
> They haven't done it yet, I doubt they ever will.
>
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