Re: Setting up your hostname and your ISP domain as two different thins in sendmailconf
On Sun, 29 Jul 2001, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 29, 2001 at 12:46:25PM -0300, hzi wrote:
> > But when you send mail via the console, how to you set the MTA (sendmal,
> > in my case) to send the mail as mynick@myisp.com?
> > What do you have to do in sendmailconf?
Setup genericstables & virtusertables - install sendmail-doc package and
peruse cf.README... If you get stuck, send me a note
> Buy "Bat" book from O'reiley for "semdmail" :-) (I did and never read
> it)
A good idea, even though it is quite out of date, it will help.
> My perseption of MTA:
>
> sendmail: one SUID daemon, cryptic configuration, old
sendmail: one SGID binary for user use, and daemon running root for
access to port 25 and deliveries of user mail. Used to be cryptic, the
.m4 configuration is much simpler... With the complexity you get unrivaled
power... Has a long history, is proven and known by many. Has undergone
pretty much a complete rewrite in the 8.10 - 8.12 timeframe.
> exim: one SUID daemon, sane configuration, (new improved smail)
> qmail: many small daemons for security minded, insane featues, old
> postfix: many small daemons for security minded, sane featurs and easy
> config, new
This is the *only* other MTA I would consider, the author is well respected
and postfix seems to have come along way.
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