[CentOS] sendmail routing

[Ron Loftin]

On Wed, 2009-09-02 at 11:38 -0700, Hugh E Cruickshank wrote:
> From: Christopher Chan Sent: September 1, 2009 23:04
> > > Sorry, last I checked, there is no sender-based routing support in 
> > > sendmail. You cannot even try to create rulesets to get that.
> > >
> > >   
> > Looks like it is my turn to eat humble pie. You will need to rebuild 
> > sendmail.cf after applying this hack.
> > 
> > http://www.cs.niu.edu/~rickert/cf/hack/sender_based_routing.m4
> 
> While this does look promising I am hesitant to install anything that
> is either a) possibly version dependent and b) beyond my understanding
> as to what it is doing. I will have to review this thoroughly before
> I even consider implementing it.
> 
> > I have not tested it let alone tried on 8.14.x
> 
> Caveat noted.
> 
> > I cannot believe the file is dated 2004. Ah well, I got rid of
> > sendmail and replaced it with postfix in 2003 while I was still a
> > mail admin. I must bow to the real sendmail bigots.
> 
> Mail administration is just one of those "little" jobs that I am
> responsible for and I just have not had the time to review/learn a
> new MTA so I muddle on with the "devil I know".

I'm certainly not going to throw stones at this philosophy, but I will
suggest that you reconsider in this case.  I'm not really a mail guru,
or even that much of a mail admin, but I switched to Postfix about 3
years ago, and I have to say that the learning curve is a LOT less
challenging than Sendmail ever was for me.  I became "productive" with
Postfix in less than a week, mostly because the documentation is a lot
better, as well as the config files are readable by the average
computer-literate humanoid.  I suggest that you give it some thought.

My $0.02 (US) worth. ;>

> 
> Thanks for your suggestion it has definitely given me something to
> think on and possibly work with.
> 
> Regards, Hugh
> 
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