Re: sendmail hostname configured as an empty string

[Freddy Freeloader <fredddy@cableone.net>]

Jeff D wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Mar 2007, Freddy Freeloader wrote:
>
> > Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
> > > On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 09:53:57AM -0700, Freddy Freeloader wrote:
> > >
> > > > >
> > > > Not my choice.  I'm setting this up for someone else who has 
> > > > hard-coded sendmail into his apps and is afraid that using exim4 
> > > > instead of sendmail will break them.  I tried to get him to use 
> > > > exim4 but he wasn't about to change his mind.
> > > Are you aware that because of this (people hard coding to sendmail) 
> > > that
> > > both Exim and Postfix provide a /usr/sbin/sendmail (or was is
> > > /usr/lib/sendmail) binary that is perfectly compatible (at the
> > > command-line option level) with sendmail?
> > >
> > > I have used apps that were hard coded to use sendmail with postfix over
> > > the past few years and never once encountered a problem.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > -Roberto
> > How many times do I have to tell you this is not my decision to 
> > make?  If it was up to my I'd use Exim4.  I've used it successfully 
> > in the past with applications that specifically called for sendmail, 
> > but the person I'm doing the for has required me to use sendmail. 
> > Think I'd be knocking my head against the wall when there is 
> > something much easier to use if I had a choice? Anyway, thanks for 
> > nothing.
>
> it goes in sendmail.mc
>
> ---
> Human beings were created by water to transport it uphill.
Thank you.  That's what I figured, but was unsure.