Sendmail woes (was: make anacron a base package)
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On 31 Mar 1999 17:00:41 -0600, John Goerzen wrote:
>Except the programs on my other machines that rely on sendmail
>capabilities that exim is unable to provide? That's not drop-in.
According to the accepted definition, it is.
>> Not edit your configuration? Then how, oh how, do you configure it?
>> Oh, wait, you're admitting that the Sendmail configuration is so esoteric
>> that you are forced to use a macro language just to get anything done.
>I fail to see what's wrong with using a macro language. For all
>practical purposes, sendmail.mc *IS* the sendmail configuration.
No, it isn't.
>Similarly, it's silly to criticize sendmail simply because it uses one
>particular way of doing things. You haven't said why using m4 makes
>sendmail.mc inherently bad.
It certainly isn't an improvement of cf, that much is certain.
>Again, what's the matter with a macro language if it's totally
>invisible to the person configuring it, as it is with sendmail?
Because it isn't. You should know that.
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