At 11:04 AM 05/13/00 +0100, Richard wrote:
wulfie wrote:
How do you come to this conclusion - sendmail is an industrial-strength smtp mail system, an industry standard. For dialup it's a sledgehammer/nut scenario, the fact that it's practical on a single dialup system just highlights it's usability. Given an open 'net pipe, simply starting it in daemon mode with scheduled or on-demand sending it's hard to imagine a more flexible system.
The international opinion that I've seen (other than this list) is that it's a pile of doggies doings :-) Even O'Reilly in their book "Running Linux" recommend that smail is used because it's easier to configure. In fact, looking at it in front of me it's very like exim to configure. Just that I can't find any useful docs about exim.
My only comment on this is that I'm an Idiot (as someone on this list commented), with no sendmail experience. The sendmail.cf file is really scary. But, in about a hour, and with the help of http://www.linuxhq.com/lg/issue45/pollman/sendmail.html (which is on my 6.3 CD), I had written a .mc file, and use m4 to build a new .cf file, replacing the one that came with SuSE. Been working without a problem since then. Bill Moseley mailto:moseley@hank.org -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/