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From: peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: Slight flame from Linux user
Message-ID: <id.M4PK1.5HD@nmti.com>
Sender: peter@nmti.com (peter da silva)
Organization: Network/development platform support, NMTI
References: <3ql3gd$je2@bell.maths.tcd.ie> <3r556h$cnj@bell.maths.tcd.ie> <id.P_KK1.U8B@nmti.com> <3rh257$lp1@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de>
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Date: Mon, 12 Jun 1995 15:08:55 GMT
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In article <3rh257$lp1@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de>,
J Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote:
> Peter da Silva <peter@nmti.com> wrote:
> >> If sendmail is hard to configure, it is because it is a bad program;

> >I'll buy that. Sendmail configuration is evil.

> I don't buy this any longer, Peter.  I would have bought it a couple
> of years ago.  My current sendmail configuration file is (modulo the
> comments) about 15 lines long.

I'd like to see it.

Also, the *size* of the sendmail config file isn't the issue so much as
the amount of work you have to do to wrap your brain around the system...
whether in cf or m4 format...
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