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[ILUG] Re: Sedmail Cf question

[ILUG] Re: Sedmail Cf question

Paul Mc Auley paul at baltimore.ie
Wed Feb 9 18:52:58 GMT 2000


On Wed, 9 Feb 2000 18:43:16 +0000 
Sascha Lucky Luck <lucks at luggage.indigo.ie>  wrote:
| Thus spoke Paul Mc Auley:

| > ObInnocentLook: Because Eric Allman doesn't sue if you criticize sendmail?

| Er... does Bernstein sue if I criticize qmail? Oh Shite...

Did I say _anything_ about either djb or his MTA? :)

Funnily enough, I tried to go back and find a cite, but couldn't. So I'll 
refrain from dredging up what little memory I have about his general behaviour 
wrt difference of opinion. Perhaps somebody else can comment.

Oh and to rejoin threads....

lucks at luggage.indigo.ie said:
| Thus spoke Lars Hecking: 
| >  Nothing wrong with sendmail that can't be fixed by a competent
| >  admin. Even if all you do is an upgrade to the latest version ...

| Well, how do you use sendmail and the Maildir format then? While I
| think of myself as a competent admin, I also like to enjoy my work.
| Editing 'sendmail.cf' <spit!> is not my idea of fun.

Which is why you use sendmail.mc, which is almost scrutable. However, when I 
finally failed to bend it to my will, I did find myself adding some evil rules 
to ruleset 96 (or 97, I forget).

<glances at the subject> Oh wait, there's the problem we're talking about the 
wrong MTA! WTF is sedmail?
	Paul





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