I recently went through the pains of configuring sendmail on my laptop which sits behind a firewall and a mail server also behind a firewall. I ended up buying the 'bat book.' As the book says, you can get sendmail to do anything...but boy one has to digest a good part of that long book...
I finally have fetchmail-sendmail-nmh working the way I want. -- Valmor > On 11 Jan 2004 at 16:19, Ben Munat wrote: > > > (It seemed like folks on this list liked qmail better than > > sendmail... anyone disagree?) > > I know this does not effect you, but for anyone else following the > thread I did NOT install qmail on my dial-up box is that it 'splits' > emails to multiple recipients *before* they leave your box. This was > annoying for me because I often send a newsletter to about 70 > addresses and it takes ages to upload it 70 times !! (it is a club > newsletter, not SPAM !!) > > I later found that the author of qmail had very strong opinions that > this was the way a MTA should work, but it was a shame I did not know > *before* I installed and configured it !! > > Regards, Simon > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list