> What do you mean, "may come back ... again"? I believe sendmail is still > the most widely used MTA on the Internet. It's never "gone away".
Well, I don't keep track of these things in detail. I started hacking "sendmail" in 1984 or something, I forget. It looked like it worked OK to me. Then sometime a few years back I noticed that it had been replaced with something (smail?) on one of the Sun systems I was working on. Since then I've noticed various other "MTAs" proliferating. Since I primarily view computers as a means to and end and not an end in themselves, AFAIK "cows come and cows go, but the bull stays around forever", so I just deal with whatever has landed in my lap at the moment and try to make it work. When I installed Debian, somehow I ended up with "exim", which means it must have installed by default, since I wouldn't have picked it, because I didn't know what it was. So, by dint of the fact that it installed by default, I expect it must be "Mail Transfer Agent of the Week", or "Current Trendy Mail Transfer Agent", or whateveritis... If I really thought "sendmail" was going to ultimately triumph and win the "Battle of the Mail Transfer Agents", I would probably have installed it, and support is definitely the main issue, since sooner or later whatever trendy MTA I happen to be using is going to break. You could be right; "exim" and "smail" and "flailmail" and "everybodybailmail" and whatever else could all lose in the end, and I could end up wasting the time I'm spending learning to bludgeon "exim" into compliance. Wouldn't be the first time I've followed a vapid software trend to perdition... won't be the last... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]