Craig White wrote:
Really? Did you have some empirical evidence for this performance difference or was this a subjective conclusion by someone what apparently never got the m4 macro concept down?
Sounds like he hit a nerve. Sendmail's config is, indeed, overly complicated. sendmail.cf is a total headache. Yeah, people aren't supposed to edit it directly, but somehow the word has not really gotten out.
Of course, the mc's also deserve a place in the usability "Hall of Shame" for their unreadability. I mean, "dnl" is a perfectly logical symbol to designate a comment, right?
My favorite quote about sendmail.cf?
"Most users' sendmail.cf comes from God, their OS distributor, and they pray that it just works..."
Sincerely (and still using sendmail), Steve Bergman