[Novalug] Internet email servers (maybe off topic)

Nick Danger nick at hackermonkey.com
Wed Oct 21 20:45:22 EDT 2009


On Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:37:48 -0400
American Dave <novalug at soupy.org> wrote:
> 
> I'm of course mostly joking but it was a shock to get around config
> files that cared about spaces vs. tabs again.  Suddenly I was
> transported to 1999, when this thing called Gnome was just taking off,
> Solaris 7 was all the rage, and DJB was taunting everyone with Qmail.
> 
> No country for old MTAs.

One good thing about someone learning sendmail these days is they
will understand how email works. Messing around with m4 and your
sendmail config means you really have to pay attention to the little
stuff. I get spoiled with postfix's easy configuration these days. I
couldn't edit a sendmail config anymore. 

So if it were up to me, I'd go with Postfix. :-)

Nick



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