On Thursday 24 February 2005 15:42, Josh Boyer wrote:
On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 03:04:40PM -0500, Richard June wrote:
> On Thursday 24 February 2005 14:53, Josh Boyer wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 11:45:15AM -0800, Kenneth Porter wrote:
> > > There seems to be a lot of dissatisfaction with sendmail in the call
> > > to replace it with Exim or Postfix, but I didn't see any specifics
> > > about why people object to it. Anyone care to give details?
> >
> > Most of the discusion has been about what should be the default. For
> > "newbies" sendmail can be a pain to configure. It's
documentation
> > leaves something to be desired, and the default sendmail.cf file isn't
> > all that helpful.
> >
> > That's not to say that sendmail isn't useful or does't work
properly.
> > It does. But if a package is going to be the default for a
> > distribution, it should also be fairly simple for new users to
> > configure and adapt to.
>
> I take issue to that. sendmail has always been *TONS* easier for me to
> configure then postfix/exim. the sendmail.mc file is simple to understand
> and edit.
I guess we'll have to agree to disagree. Anything that requires using m4
after editing a config file isn't intuitive IMHO.
edit the config file, run
service sendmail restart.
all done. you don't have to run m4 manually, the sendmail initscript does that
for you.
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