Did I miss a memo somewhere? I didn't know sendmail had such a reputation.
I am an NT admin. About 18 months ago, I started looking at Linux (now
I have seen the light).
During my reformation, I wanted to setup my own domain including hosting
my own mail. I found a magazine article that gave me everything I
needed in just a couple of pages. I have been using Sendmail with POP3
and IMAP for more than a year with NO issues at all. Take a look at
this article....
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=5507
Paul M Foster wrote:
>On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 03:34:50PM -0400, Mario Lombardo wrote:
>
>>Do any of you use and like any backends for Pine, other than sendmail?
>>
>>I took one look at the sendmail.cf file and vomited on my keyboard.
>>After I replaced it (the keyboard), I took a gander at Qmail, but
>>I'm curious about some others that folks have had experience with.
>>I'm just looking for POP3 retrieval for now, but IMAP and others
>>would be neat features as well.
>>
>>I'd even take an easy-to-use configuration tool for sendmail, if
>>you've got one.
>>
>
>Ha ha hee hee ho ho! An "easy-to-use configuration tool for sendmail"!
>ROTFL!
>
>Ahem.
>
>You should _not_ edit the sendmail.cf file unless you have to. Edit the
>sendmail.mc file instead and rebuild the sendmail.cf file via the
>instructions which are probably contained in the sendmail.mc file. Even
>then, you need degrees in Rocket Science and Advanced Xenobiology to
>know what's going on. You can buy the 2" thick O'Reilly book on
>sendmail, if you are degreeless. ;-}
>
>Exim and Postfix are simpler-to-configure alternatives to sendmail.
>Qmail is widely used, but it is encumbered by its author's odd ideas
>about "open source". That is, he doesn't allow redistributed source
>which he himself has not modified. You can hack the code all you want,
>but you can't give the mods to anyone else.
>
>All that being said, Pine doesn't use sendmail or any other MTA out of
>the box. It negotiates directly with the remote SMTP server. It may be
>that it can be modified to use a separate MTA via its config file, but I
>don't know, and have never done it. I use mutt, which does use an MTA to
>send mail, and is extremely configurable.
>
>Paul
>
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