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

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

On Monday 19 April 2010 21:07:47 Mick wrote:
> On Monday 19 April 2010 15:49:34 Grant Edwards wrote:
> > On 2010-04-19, Tanstaafl <tanstaafl@libertytrek.org> wrote:
> > > On 2010-04-18 6:27 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > >> On Sunday 18 April 2010 22:06:44 Mick wrote:
> > >>> I was reminded that I do not understand sendmail enough for my
> > >>> liking.
> > >> 
> > >> Does anybody?
> > >
> > ><flame-protect>
> > >
> > > That's why Wietse invented postfix.
> > >
> > ></flame-protect>
> > 
> > I gave up on sendmail about 12 years ago and switched to qmail and/or
> > postfix.  I didn't know anybody was still using sendmail.  Is it the
> > default MTA for any of the popular Linux distros?
> 
> I am not sure if it is a default MTA but I have a CentOS server which comes
> with it.  I guess it's one of these masochistic things that either decide
> to completely avoid learning (like emacs?!) or once you start you don't
> want to let it beat you!  :-))

I recall this old quip:

You are not a real Unix sysadmin till you have written a sendmail.cf by hand.
You are insane to attempt it twice.

;-)


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