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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!news-ber1.dfn.de!news-han1.dfn.de!news-koe1.dfn.de!news.rwth-aachen.de!newsserver.rrzn.uni-hannover.de!tubsibr!news From: Mike Dowling <mike@moocow.math.nat.tu-bs.de> Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail,comp.mail.smail,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Sendmail vs. Smail... Date: 06 Dec 1996 11:55:17 +0100 Organization: TU Braunschweig, Informatik (Bueltenweg), Germany Lines: 42 Distribution: world Message-ID: <vusp5k6iy2.fsf@moocow.math.nat.tu-bs.de> References: <57tf61$gq7@raven.eva.net> <584aao$5im@rzstud1.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: moocow.math.nat.tu-bs.de X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.34 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.mail.sendmail:34825 comp.mail.smail:2640 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:32127 >>> On 4 Dec 1996 17:53:44 +0100, uk1o@rzstud1.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de (Felix Schroeter) said: Felix> Hello! In article <57tf61$gq7@raven.eva.net>, J.C. Archambeau Felix> <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. Well, I've been using smail for years too, and it's not bad, but I would like to use sendmail *precisely* because of that flexible sendmail.cf file that smail so lacks. (I've have yet to get sendmail to function correctly, or, rather, I suspect that sendmail is doing it's job as it should, but there is some problem with the communication of sendmail and the mail delivery agent.) Anyway, if and when sendmail does work on my Linux machine, the first things that I shall do is, firstly, get sendmail to bounce spammers, and, secondly, disable MIME, neither of which can be done with smail, or, at least, I am not aware of any way of doing this with smail. (procmail can, of cource be applied to spammers.) Felix> If you did edit sendmail.cf directly, it's your fault, not sendmail's. The sendmail.cf is there precisely for the purpose of editing, and adaptinmg to your sit's individual needs. Felix> In Berkeley sendmail 8, there's a rather nifty m4 configuration package Felix> for sendmail. With that, the configuration for a leaf site is about 10 Felix> lines long, and is then preprocessed via m4 to yield the final Felix> sendmail.cf (which you don't look at any more :-). I believe that m4 script is there to give most people a good start, and not as a sort of replacement for sendmail.cf. >> On a related note, I would like to receive an i ndepth reference on the >> configuration of sendmail. Get that O'Reilly book. Cheers, Mike