Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Setting up a fall back ISP SMTP in sendmail
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 21:55:54
Message-Id: 201004192255.40714.michaelkintzios@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Setting up a fall back ISP SMTP in sendmail by Alan McKinnon
1 On Monday 19 April 2010 20:20:27 you wrote:
2 > On Monday 19 April 2010 21:07:47 Mick wrote:
3 > > On Monday 19 April 2010 15:49:34 Grant Edwards wrote:
4 > > > On 2010-04-19, Tanstaafl <tanstaafl@×××××××××××.org> wrote:
5 > > > > On 2010-04-18 6:27 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote:
6 > > > >> On Sunday 18 April 2010 22:06:44 Mick wrote:
7 > > > >>> I was reminded that I do not understand sendmail enough for my
8 > > > >>> liking.
9 > > > >>
10 > > > >> Does anybody?
11 > > > >
12 > > > ><flame-protect>
13 > > > >
14 > > > > That's why Wietse invented postfix.
15 > > > >
16 > > > ></flame-protect>
17 > > >
18 > > > I gave up on sendmail about 12 years ago and switched to qmail and/or
19 > > > postfix. I didn't know anybody was still using sendmail. Is it the
20 > > > default MTA for any of the popular Linux distros?
21 > >
22 > > I am not sure if it is a default MTA but I have a CentOS server which
23 > > comes with it. I guess it's one of these masochistic things that either
24 > > decide to completely avoid learning (like emacs?!) or once you start you
25 > > don't want to let it beat you! :-))
26 >
27 > I recall this old quip:
28 >
29 > You are not a real Unix sysadmin till you have written a sendmail.cf by
30 > hand. You are insane to attempt it twice.
31 >
32 > ;-)
33
34
35 He, he! I thought it went along the lines of:
36
37 "He who has never hacked sendmail.cf has no soul;
38 he who has hacked sendmail.cf more than once has no brain."
39 - Old Hacker Proverb
40
41 --
42 Regards,
43 Mick

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