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"...Ever tried to set up a Postfix server?" is the new "...Ever tried to set up a Sendmail server?". (When I was younger, I was told by a veteran sysadmin that
by fermigier 9y ago
"...Ever tried to set up a Postfix server?" is the new "...Ever tried to set up a Sendmail server?".
(When I was younger, I was told by a veteran sysadmin that only 5 persons in the world knew how to configure Sendmail directly, everyone else was relying on preprocessing scripts written by the aforementioned wizards).
Edit: my point is that Postfix is actually quite easy to configure, compared to Sendmail which was the standard in the 90s.
- humanrebar 9y agoSee also: argument-dependent lookup rules in C++
- yjftsjthsd-h 9y agoIs it? I've only modified existing configurations, but Postfix doesn't seem bad.
- dsr_ 9y agoPostfix is quite simple, provided you already know how MTAs work and can google the right terms. Sendmail.cf deserves its reputation.
- yjftsjthsd-h 9y ago> Sendmail.cf deserves its reputation. Hah; I had to look at a sendmail config a while back for a legacy server. It's line noise.
- chungy 9y agoI've picked Postfix entirely because Exim is difficult and overkill for my purposes...
- thenomad 9y agoOP and writer of the article here. I'm embarassed to say that I wrote Postfix when I meant Sendmail! I might just go ninja-edit that now :)
- wott 9y ago> When I was younger, I was told by a veteran sysadmin that only 5 persons in the world knew how to configure Sendmail directly, everyone else was relying on preprocessing scripts written by the aforementioned wizards). Ha! When I jumped into Linux during the summer of 95, I spent many many days and nights writing directly sendmail.cf rules, because I could not understand and use any of those damn M4 scripts... Handwriting sendmail.cf parts was more straightforward for me (for some value of 'straightforward'). 20 years later, I have yet to get around to grasping M4.