Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 16:16:21 +0000 From: Lucius Rizzo <Lucius.Rizzo@Lucius.XxX> To: Bryan Drewery <bdrewery@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org>, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Import of DragonFly Mail Agent Message-ID: <20140224161621.GB31812@lucius.XxX> In-Reply-To: <530B67EA.1090102@FreeBSD.org> References: <20140223211155.GS1699@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net> <530B67EA.1090102@FreeBSD.org>
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* Bryan Drewery <bdrewery@FreeBSD.org> [2014-02-24 09:40]: > Remembering the time I spent trying to configure sendmail to not accept > inbound mail, and trying to get it to behave how I want, I fully support > this. Of all the years I've messed with sendmail, I still have little > understanding of how to configure it or if I've done it right. Hush! No sendmail hating :P. I remember it being a right of passage to graduate to a ^real^ UNIX admin when you had lost half of your hair while working on sendmail.cf. In a era now long gone, I remember carrying the sendmail bible (thick with detailed instructions on cf vars) as protection vs. say a baseball bat. The Sendmail manual was thick, heavy and while I never did use it as a weapon; I had imagined many times throwing it at a server and see if that maybe fixed the problem with sendmail.cf. I've worked with MTA's a lot. I have hated and loved Sendmail. ATM, I am back in my I <3 Sendmail mode and have it running quite well -- with a lot of cool milters on some of my servers. But sendmail is not for the faint of heart, or ones who are at risk of hair loss. In fact, I would highly discourage sendmail use in the latter case. > My exaggerated view of sendmail as a user: [...] Poof..that's easy :P > > # Uncomment if you want STARTTLS support (only used in combination > > with # SECURETRANSFER) #STARTTLS > > Yes please. Simple. > > I'm not sure where to even start with sendmail to enable those > options. See! That wasn't hard at all!! I don't get why people get so worried. What you posted was mostly mc stuff anyways. I would be far more impressed if you would have debugged that in the cf or via sendmail flags. :))) I often use ssmtp on servers that run Wordpress etc and collect most mail to a mailhub which routes it internally and externally. I <3 Sendmail. -- | _o _ |_)o_ _ _ |_|_|(_||_|_> | \|/_/_(_) - Lucius.Tel -------------------------------------- ++ The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves. ++ ++ -- Sophocles ++
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