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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!news.idt.net!news.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!news.belwue.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!not-for-mail From: uk1o@rzstud1.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de (Felix Schroeter) Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail,comp.mail.smail,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Sendmail vs. Smail... Date: 4 Dec 1996 17:53:44 +0100 Organization: University of Karlsruhe, Germany Lines: 31 Message-ID: <584aao$5im@rzstud1.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> References: <57tf61$gq7@raven.eva.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: rzstud1.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit NNTP-Posting-User: uk1o Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.mail.sendmail:34790 comp.mail.smail:2636 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:32079 Hello! In article <57tf61$gq7@raven.eva.net>, J.C. Archambeau <jca@bighorn.accessnv.com> wrote: >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. If you did edit sendmail.cf directly, it's your fault, not sendmail's. In Berkeley sendmail 8, there's a rather nifty m4 configuration package for sendmail. With that, the configuration for a leaf site is about 10 lines long, and is then preprocessed via m4 to yield the final sendmail.cf (which you don't look at any more :-). >[...] >On a related note, I would like to receive an i ndepth reference on >the configuration of sendmail. In the sendmail 8.7 or 8.8.x packages, look at .../sendmail-8.8.x/cf/README Regards, Felix. PS: If you don't need special rewritings or such, you could look at qmail, too. That's a modularized mailer, which can run under non privileged user id's (and is thus much less prone to security problems than sendmail or smail). But it can't handle more special rewritings, so we have resorted to sendmail at a small ISP (w/ UUCP downlinks) here.