On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 6:22 PM, Phil Dobbin <bukowskiscat at gmail.com> wrote: > > Whilst bowing in due deference to people who've been using *nix/Linux > since it required a piece of string, two tin cans & coven in order to > achieve results, I was under the impression that nowadays, unless you > actually need some functionality that sendmail has & nothing else > possesses, the received wisdom for novices when setting up all things > mail was using postfix in its place. > That would be uucp (equivalent to string), a Telebit Trailblazer modem (= can), and a severely modified version of a UCB sendmail config file to make sure that non-local traffic ended up at a host running 'pathalias' [1], to prevent it from making a major detour (= dark magic). -- Gé (mcvax!hobbit!ge) [1] http://www.uucp.org/papers/pathalias.pdf