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On Monday 19 April 2010 20:19:16 Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> On Monday 19 April 2010 16:49:34 Grant Edwards wrote: |
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> > On 2010-04-19, Tanstaafl <tanstaafl@×××××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> > > On 2010-04-18 6:27 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> > >> On Sunday 18 April 2010 22:06:44 Mick wrote: |
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> > >>> I was reminded that I do not understand sendmail enough for my |
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> > >>> liking. |
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> > >> |
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> > >> Does anybody? |
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> > > |
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> > ><flame-protect> |
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> > > |
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> > > That's why Wietse invented postfix. |
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> > > |
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> > ></flame-protect> |
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> > |
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> > I gave up on sendmail about 12 years ago and switched to qmail and/or |
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> > postfix. I didn't know anybody was still using sendmail. Is it the |
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> > default MTA for any of the popular Linux distros? |
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> Yes. Centos/RedHat et al. The installer has a screen to let you choose, but |
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> if you click-click-click-Yes through it like most numbnuts will, sendmail |
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> is what you get. |
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> How do I know this? Because I fought valiantly with one of them today. |
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> I took me 90 minutes to figure out how to add a SmartHost. |
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Ha, ha! You should have asked in this M/L! ;-) |
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> Vogon poetry is |
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> a delight compared to those damn .cf files. And the .mc's aren't much |
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> better. |
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.cf files are strictly for hackers, well, <aheam> I meant sendmail hackers. |
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;-) |
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The problem is that you'll spend an hour or two setting it all up, it'll work, |
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you'll never touch it again. Then, two years later something will require you |
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to reconfigure it and there will be no way on this earth that you will |
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remember what you did or why it made any sense at the time! Ha, ha! :-)) |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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