Fouled-up smtp...

[Peter L. Peres]

On Sun, 30 May 2004, William Park wrote:

> 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.

Grin, I tried that at the time. 'canned' cf files are about as useful as
gui setup wizards. If you need anything non-standard you're sol. Been
there, no thanks. And as I said, editing the cf file by hand is gruesome.
It's been like 6 or 7 years and I still remember how bad it was.

Peter


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