On Monday 19 April 2010 16:49:34 Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2010-04-19, Tanstaafl <tansta...@libertytrek.org> wrote: > > On 2010-04-18 6:27 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > >> On Sunday 18 April 2010 22:06:44 Mick wrote: > >>> I was reminded that I do not understand sendmail enough for my liking. > >> > >> Does anybody? > > > ><flame-protect> > > > > That's why Wietse invented postfix. > > > ></flame-protect> > > I gave up on sendmail about 12 years ago and switched to qmail and/or > postfix. I didn't know anybody was still using sendmail. Is it the > default MTA for any of the popular Linux distros?
Yes. Centos/RedHat et al. The installer has a screen to let you choose, but if you click-click-click-Yes through it like most numbnuts will, sendmail is what you get. How do I know this? Because I fought valiantly with one of them today. I took me 90 minutes to figure out how to add a SmartHost. Vogon poetry is a delight compared to those damn .cf files. And the .mc's aren't much better. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
