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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!news.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!raven.eva.net!bighorn.accessnv.com!jca From: jca@bighorn.accessnv.com (J.C. Archambeau) Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail,comp.mail.smail,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Sendmail vs. Smail... Date: 2 Dec 1996 02:33:37 GMT Organization: Access Nevada Inc. Lines: 26 Message-ID: <57tf61$gq7@raven.eva.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: bighorn.accessnv.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.mail.sendmail:34620 comp.mail.smail:2619 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:31877 I'm going to be eventually installing FreeBSD 2.1.6 on my machine. I am curious to know the present pros and cons of sendmail vs. smail. The two primary issues I am concerned with are robustness and ease of configuration. I would like to hear from both sysadmins and FreeBSD users who have used both. In the past I have preferred smail as the mailer program for Unix based machines. Partially because I did not like the heiroglyphics of sendmail.cf files. :) I even went to the extreme of disabling sendmail on the company Sun and installing smail. The system will be configured as a dialup PPP client for a local ISP. The ISP will be the be providing all internet services to the outside world. Mail will be handed off to the ISP for routing. I recall the ease of configuration of smail over sendmail which is why I was using for under SCO Xenix when I was just using UUCP to transport mail many moons ago to the local dial in mail server I was using. On a related note, I would like to receive an i ndepth reference on the configuration of sendmail. -- /* ** Internet: jca@accessnv.com | Don't blame me, I didn't vote for Clinton. ** jca@anv.net | Intel is the word for 'errata.' */