From: Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: basic trouble with sendmail config
Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2016 21:23:34 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k2bfm7vd.fsf@reader.local.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 5844AF04.9060905@googlemail.com
Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@googlemail.com> writes:
> Am 04.12.2016 um 20:09 schrieb Harry Putnam:
>
> is there a good reason you chose sendmail over postfix? Do you hate
> yourself? You are a masochist?
>
> I found sendmail the worst piece of software I ever had to deal with.
> Windows XP user&rights management in a mixed environment with shares is
> delightful, writing bind config files or XFree86 configs by hand was
> nice, easy and a joy compared to sendmail.
All the above. If you are really into pain... where pulled
fingernails are the lowest starter level ... sendmail is something
I'd only dreamed about .... till now.
OK, is there really nobody here that uses sendmail?
I'm pretty sure the kind of immediate and complete failure I'm seeing
is something horribly missconfigured and might not be that much to
fix. If I could understand what is causing the fuss.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-12-05 2:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-12-04 19:09 [gentoo-user] basic trouble with sendmail config Harry Putnam
2016-12-04 19:23 ` J. Roeleveld
2016-12-04 20:55 ` [gentoo-user] " Harry Putnam
2016-12-04 20:29 ` [gentoo-user] " John Covici
2016-12-05 0:04 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2016-12-05 2:23 ` Harry Putnam [this message]
2016-12-05 2:28 ` [gentoo-user] " John Covici
2016-12-05 6:20 ` Mick
2016-12-06 3:26 ` Harry Putnam
2016-12-06 6:23 ` John Covici
2016-12-06 13:57 ` Harry Putnam
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