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I remember trying to setup sendmail 15-20 years ago, and it was a horrendous experience. Seeing this news reminds me of an old quote (which I cannot find a dir
by josteink 4y ago
I remember trying to setup sendmail 15-20 years ago, and it was a horrendous experience.
Seeing this news reminds me of an old quote (which I cannot find a direct reference to at this point):
"There is nothing in human experience when compared to setting up a sendmail config-file which can be considered hard."
Based on this move, I guess this means sendmail haven't really improved much in that regard since, and most people just avoiding it for that reason?
I guess... Good riddance, then?
- nonrandomstring 4y agoThe thickest, heaviest and least used old book I keep by the door for battering intruders is O'Reilly "Sendmail". It taught me one important thing; that the elegance and reliability of any program is inversely proportional to the size if the configuration guide.
- darrenf 4y agoSendmail as Turing machine: https://okmij.org/ftp/Computation/sendmail-as-turing-machine.txt https://okmij.org/ftp/Computation/sendmail-as-turing-machine...