Fouled-up smtp...

[Scott Elcomb]

On Sat, 2004-05-29 at 15:00, Marcus Brubaker wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-05-29 at 14:24, William Park wrote:
> > On Sat, May 29, 2004 at 09:09:54PM +0300, Peter L. Peres wrote:
> > > 
> > > On Fri, 28 May 2004, William Park wrote:
> > > 
> > > > > I had originally switched the system from sendmail to postfix, as I
> > > > > coulden't (apperently) get mail working with sendmail and I've often
> > > > > heard postfix was easier to configure.
> > > >
> > > > Now you know.  Switch back.
> > > 
> > > That is the best joke I heard this month. Suse and a couple other distros
> > > come with Postfix MTA as default for a reason.
> > 
> > Like?  Sendmail vs Postfix vs Qmail is like Vi(m) vs Emacs vs Pico.
> 
> Definitely.  MTAs seems to be just about as contentious (amongst people
> who care) as any of the holy wars.  For the most part I've found peoples
> preferences to be based on what they learned first.  Perhaps the moral
> is configuring MTAs is so painful you only want to learn to do it once
> and refuse to believe that any other piece of software might have been
> easier or better :)
> 
> That said, I do think that Sendmail is more intimidating to learn than
> some of the other mailers.  Particularly if you don't know SMTP inside
> and out when you start.  The Sendmail config file is just terrifying at
> first look.
> 
> Regards,

I hadn't considered that as a "moral," but I suppose maybe it is - I'm
not sure I'd have the strength to go trying to set up anything other
than sendmail.

I once spent 2 days looking to find out why a configuration change
didn't work.  Eventually I remembered that the comments begin with dnl.
Lol.

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Scott Elcomb
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