On 12/2/2012 3:52 PM, Harold Pritchett wrote:
you are a sendmail expert. I too have been using sendmail for umpteen years (since the early 90s with UUCP, anyways), and feel comfortable in it, and haven't to date been willing to put in the effort to switch..
The OP, on the other hand, appears to be a novice ("To date I have not had to configure sendmail since I use a class in PHP that is straight, however I am learning how to use Concrete5 for my local Rotary club and it apparently needs sendmail...."). I'd suggest postfix because its configuration interface is cleaner and simpler (the whole .mc -> .cf thing in sendmail is truly arcane).
I agree. When first trying to configure sendmail years ago, I remember how painful it was. "Giving birth to a flaming porcupine", comes to mind. Postfix is about as easy as I was always thinking sendmail should be.
Now if only they'd do something like that for BIND...
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