[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Setting up a fall back ISP SMTP in sendmail

[Grant Edwards]

On 2010-04-20, Harry Putnam <reader@×××××××.com> wrote:
> Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com> writes:
>
>> On 2010-04-20, Harry Putnam <reader@×××××××.com> wrote:
>>
>>> About all the snipes concerning hacking sendmail.cf... I'm sure you
>>> are all aware that any hacking needs to happen in sendmail.mc... then
>>> let m4 sort out sendmail.cf.
>>
>> IOW, sendmail has a configuration file so incomprehensible that the
>> configuration file needs a configuration file.
>
> Internet mail is quite complex, yes.

Yet all of the other popular MTAs seem to have human-readable
configuration files and don't need a meta-configuration-file/language
to generate their configuration files.

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