On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 10:22:55AM -0700, Mark Ferlatte wrote: > I would say that if you want to be a Unix admin, you'd better know > sendmail, if only so that you can make a coherent argument for > replacing it with something that you like better.
The other good reason any UNIX admin should be familiar with sendmail configuration is that most of the servers you run probably won't be mail servers themselves. It's usually going to be a whole lot faster to take a few minutes to throw together an M4 file to point them at your real mail server as a smarthost than to download and install your favorite MTA. The whole world doesn't run on Linux, and the overwhelming majority of UNIX-like systems (including quite a few Linux distributions) ship with some version of sendmail. The main nuisance is that different vendors and different OS releases from the same vendor often use different versions of sendmail, so you can't always use the same M4 file for all your servers. -- Michael Heironimus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
