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The config format is the least of your worries also if you're running sendmail - which I do.
by al_form2000 7y ago
The config format is the least of your worries also if you're running sendmail - which I do.
- roel_v 7y agoYou're a much braver soul than I have ever been :)
- al_form2000 7y agoYeah, that's the folk wisdom on sendmail. But really, since version 8.0, writing your own .cf (or reading it) should have been regarded as bizarre as crafting your own object files with an hex editor. And sendmail has served me well, over the years; its scariest feature (sendmail.cf) is also a strength - as a Turing complete programmiong language, it allows you to tie your incoming/outgoing mail in square knots, if you feel so inclined, or to solve some unforeseen mail routing configuration/problem/whatever. Of course, if you find someone that has gone to the lenght to write a _LOCAL ruleset that does it - and alas that is a creaft I do not possess, and is dying out. When it does, I will probably make the postfix jump. I cannot claim prescience, because I started ont the trade when sendmail was THE mail program (though ed was no longer THE text editor): but consider, had I listened to the sendmail bashing crowd a couple years later I would have gone qmail (!!!). For not having done that, I thank the almighty weekly.