Fouled-up smtp...

William Park opengeometry-FFYn/CNdgSA at public.gmane.org
Sun May 30 19:45:12 UTC 2004


On Sun, May 30, 2004 at 05:04:07PM +0300, Peter L. Peres wrote:
> > > 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.
> > I use Vi, and even my shell command line is vi-mode.
> 
> I use vi too but that's not a good reason to enjoy $< $? $!@#@! $>
> substitutions in sendmail.cf files. I played with this, it's bad imho.

Granted.  But, you really don't need to play with .cf nowdays.  You
should configure Sendmail using .m4 as recommended/supported by
Sendmail.org.  The only raw .cf recipes that I have is to reject
Microsoft Swen emails, and even that is in my .m4 file.

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