[Gllug] Sendmail + SuSE 7.3

[Harvey Kelly]

On Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 01:12:23PM +0000, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 03:07:25AM +0000, Harvey wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 02:15:09PM +0000, Roger Whittaker wrote:
> > > Try using postfix.
> >
> > Sorry, but are you being serious?
> 
> What is it you think you are gaining from running Sendmail on a home
> system?  What experience or secret knowledge of Postfix do you have that
> would make you treat it as a joke?
> 
> Exim is my mta of choice these days but I still use Postfix in places at
> work, particularly on our front-facing mailhost as Postfix has both an
> extremely secure design and a high throughput.

I have no doubt - I know know next to nothing about
Postfix/Sendmail/Exim.  I asked if he was being serious as, he being a 
representative of SuSE, I thought it was funny that his solution to
encontering probelms with SuSE's default mail handler was to install
another package.  
 
Problems with WindowMaker?  Use Blackbox instead!

Harvey
 
> There are advantages to using Sendmail:  
> 
> 1.  It is configurable to the extreme - but only if you have learned its
> arcana: the m4 hacks don't let you do the full mail-architecture rewrite
> you can do by editing the rules in sendmail.cf.
> 
> 2.  It supports a range of legacy services (uucp etc) and pre-internet
> routing/delivery settings that more recent rivals do not.
> 
> 3.  It is the default mta on commercial Unices.  Skilled sendmail
> administrators can earn serious money (see point 1).
> 
> But how much of that is relevant to you?  Revisiting the points:
> 
> 1.  a) Have you put in the serious time to learn Sendmail thoroughly and
> b) do you need that level of complexity?
> 
> 2.  How many pre-internet systems are you running?  Got a Fidonet
> account?
> 
> The advantages of running Postfix at home are that it is very simple to
> set up and has a much more secure design (so any misconfiguration on
> your part is much less likely to leave you exposed).
> 
> Roger's suggestion may have been a bit cheeky but it wasn't a joke.
> 
> > Thanks to those who replyed, but I cheated and put set
> > hostname=clara.co.uk in my .muttrc.  Sorry ;)
> 
> That won't stop your mail being rejected by some systems unless you have
> at least set up envelope re-writing.
> 
> -- 
> Bruce
> 
> Bitterly it mathinketh me, that I spent mine wholle lyf in the lists
> against the ignorant.  -- Roger Bacon, "Doctor Mirabilis"



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