On 12/03/2012 01:54 AM, John R Pierce wrote: > On 12/2/2012 5:47 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: >> If you don't like things that use traditional unix tools for the >> purposes they were designed, why are you interested in using linux at >> all? From a user perspective making a few changes to sendmail.mc and >> restarting the sendmail service is quite easy. > > I once knew my way around the 'rules' in the .cf file. thats truly > some evil arcane magic in there. 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. All documentation I've ever read regarding postfix starts with declaration that postfix is a replacement for sendmail, it's widely recommended as a replacement & having used postfix after attempting to use sendmail, I can see why (I too have Eric Allman's big book & also have read anecdotes written by Brian Kernighan on its origins & very interesting & enlightening they are too). But surely, the effort required to be competent enough to use it properly far outweighs the benefits just for the casual user. Cheers, Phil... -- currently (ab)using CentOS 5.8 & 6.3, Debian Squeeze & Wheezy, Fedora Beefy & Spherical, OS X Snow Leopard & Ubuntu Precise & Quantal -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 553 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20121203/c3a7cd15/attachment-0004.sig>