From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 4 14:21:10 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EDDA37B401 for ; Wed, 4 Dec 2002 14:21:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from beck.quonix.net (beck.quonix.net [64.239.136.146]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 980F443EAF for ; Wed, 4 Dec 2002 14:21:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from john@essenz.com) Received: from localhost (pcp01324074pcs.neave01.pa.comcast.net [68.81.22.158]) by beck.quonix.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id gB4MGwA66301 for ; Wed, 4 Dec 2002 14:16:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from john@essenz.com) Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 17:20:46 -0500 Subject: Re: sendmail Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v482) From: John Von Essen To: freebsd question Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <20021204173535.GA971@kierun.org> Message-Id: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.482) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sendmail's configuration file is horrendous to "humans" because it is not intended to be messed around with by humans - only the beginning of sendmail.cf should be touched (i.e. modifying path to sendmail.cw). REASON: You use a .mc file and m4 to build a respective sendmail.cf config file. In the .mc file you declare the features you want to use - within the .mc file you do your personal configs. The .mc file is very "readable" and is easy to work with. -John Von Essen On Wednesday, December 4, 2002, at 12:35 PM, Yann Golanski wrote: > Quoth Peter Jamrisko on Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 18:08:28 +0100 >> OK Boys, >> >> But I assume it must working with sendmail and then can I install >> another MTA. > > Sendmail has a horrendouse configuration file that takes years to > understand much less change. Other MTAs such as Exim, Postfix and Qmail > are better designed and have clearer configuratin files. Have a look at > all three (www.exim.org, www.postfix.org, www.qmail.org) and get the one > that you like best. > > -- > yann@kierun.org -=*=- www.kierun.org > PGP: 009D 7287 C4A7 FD4F 1680 06E4 F751 7006 9DE2 6318 > IRC: nick kierun, server spod.uk.amiganet.org, channel #sanctus > NNGS: nick kierun, server nngs.cosmic.org, port 9696. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message