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On 04:02 Thu 26 Nov 2020, Grant Edwards wrote: |
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>On 2020-11-26, thelma@×××××××××××.com <thelma@×××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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>> I've always used postifx but I want to try sendmail this time. |
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>Appropos of nothing, might we ask why? I've heard there are things |
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>that you can do with sendmail that you can't do with postfix or exim |
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>or qmail, but the descriptions of what sorts of "things" would require |
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>sendmail were rarely intelligible to a mere mortal. |
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>> And I have a hard time finding gentoo howto. |
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>Back when we used to sendmail on SunOS in the early 90's the generally |
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>accepted approach was to copy somebody else's config file that almost |
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>worked, change things more or less at random and then watch the disks |
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>fill up and the network crash. The miraculous part was that the disk |
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>would fill up but all the mail would disappear. |
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>I think sendmail configuration was where "cargo cult" programming |
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>originated. |
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>From "The Unix-Hater's Handbook" |
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> Sendmail: The Vietnam of Berkeley Unix |
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> Sendmail is the standard Unix mailer, and it is likely to remain |
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> the standard Unix mailer for many, many years. Although other |
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> mailers (such as MMDF and smail) have been written, none of them |
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> simultaneously enjoy sendmail’s popularity or widespread animosity. |
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>O'Reilly's _Sendmail_ 4th Edition (the bat book), has 1312 pages and |
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>weighs four pounds. |
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>Head up the river if you must, but don't get out of the boat. |
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>-- |
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>Grant |
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On the lighter side, it famously known that , if you poke at sendmail conf |
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more than once, then you are effected by the paranoia and which is not good |
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for you and others around you. |
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~Bhaskar |
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