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On Sunday 04 Dec 2016 21:28:06 John Covici wrote: |
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> On Sun, 04 Dec 2016 21:23:34 -0500, |
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> |
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> Harry Putnam wrote: |
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> > Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com> writes: |
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> > > Am 04.12.2016 um 20:09 schrieb Harry Putnam: |
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> > > |
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> > > is there a good reason you chose sendmail over postfix? Do you hate |
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> > > yourself? You are a masochist? |
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> > > |
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> > > I found sendmail the worst piece of software I ever had to deal with. |
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> > > Windows XP user&rights management in a mixed environment with shares is |
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> > > delightful, writing bind config files or XFree86 configs by hand was |
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> > > nice, easy and a joy compared to sendmail. |
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> > |
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> > All the above. If you are really into pain... where pulled |
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> > fingernails are the lowest starter level ... sendmail is something |
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> > I'd only dreamed about .... till now. |
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> > |
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> > OK, is there really nobody here that uses sendmail? |
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> > |
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> > I'm pretty sure the kind of immediate and complete failure I'm seeing |
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> > is something horribly missconfigured and might not be that much to |
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> > fix. If I could understand what is causing the fuss. |
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> I use it all the time with no problems. Did you do the -X or increase |
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> the loglevel? |
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What John said. In addition, pay particular attention both to ownership and |
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access rights for sendmail directories and config files. They should not be |
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world accessible for obvious security reasons and in addition access.db and |
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aliases.db files should be owned by root. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |