From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1O4E6f-0002LC-UZ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 20 Apr 2010 14:07:18 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8F46FE0AA9 for ; Tue, 20 Apr 2010 14:07:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0270E07EE for ; Tue, 20 Apr 2010 13:53:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E4EC1B40A6 for ; Tue, 20 Apr 2010 13:53:27 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.403 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.403 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.804, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id xcyrR8fSjQtr for ; Tue, 20 Apr 2010 13:53:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C0301B409F for ; Tue, 20 Apr 2010 13:53:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O4Dt0-0007Xp-BJ for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Tue, 20 Apr 2010 15:53:10 +0200 Received: from c-98-215-178-110.hsd1.in.comcast.net ([98.215.178.110]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 20 Apr 2010 15:53:10 +0200 Received: from reader by c-98-215-178-110.hsd1.in.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 20 Apr 2010 15:53:10 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org connect(): No such file or directory From: Harry Putnam Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Setting up a fall back ISP SMTP in sendmail Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 08:53:01 -0500 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <878w8is01u.fsf@newsguy.com> References: <201004192119.16540.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <201004192251.11426.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-98-215-178-110.hsd1.in.comcast.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:FLFpIpfuaoXVVgz3hKxGV1QEmC4= X-Archives-Salt: a7d9118d-9793-47d4-a3b2-970361f940e6 X-Archives-Hash: 1247123cc600e33c51305479ecd4b463 I think you all are missing something... sendmail is better documented than any of the other pretenders. Now understand, that I am easily the dullest knife in the drawer on this list even though by unix/linux standards I'm fairly long in the tooth having started my computing skills in 1996 and broke in on redhat at that time (using sendmail). I'm sad to say, I'm still a noob in a vast number of areas. I've used sendmail all that time. If I can figure out how to use it.... It really must not be that hard. At least not hard to find piles of help on google. Admittedly though my usage has always been just a homeboy home lan administrator so closest I ever come to using sendmail anything like what its target usage base is, would be a home lan mailhub. Unless, I'm terribly misinformed, sendmail is still the most commonly used mta in the unix world of servers. At least according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sendmail Qmail home page says it is the second most common MTA but doesn't say who is first.... its sendmail... I'm pretty sure. 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.