[CLUE-Tech] sendmail query

[David Anselmi]

Angelo Bertolli wrote:
[...]
> BTW, sendmail isn't that bad.  For what reasons do you avoid it?

Its security record and the things I've heard people say about 
configuring it.

I had a test server once and although I wanted sendmail to accept 
locally generated mail I didn't want anything actually delivered.  Our 
Solaris admin (11 years experience) told me she wouldn't touch the 
config because it worked and if she messed with it she'd never be able 
to make it work again (working wasn't important to me, but keeping her 
configs similar was important to her).

Granted she may not have been the best admin, and she wasn't a full time 
mail admin.  But unless you are a full time mail admin and know that 
sendmail is better for you than the alternatives (is there any case 
where that's true, barring those who grew up on it and don't know 
anything else?) I'd recommend one of the other MTAs that are easier to 
configure.

Take this thread for instance.  You and I both read the sendmail docs as 
saying Charile was asking for what he got (not that they were all that 
easy to read).  Charlie found something completely different to fix it.

Maybe I'm dense, but that's what I think.

Dave