On Tue, 27 Oct 2009, pete wright wrote:
On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Lars Eighner
<[email protected]> wrote:
You guessed wrong.
We use m4, which cuts out most of the crap that you had to write into
sendmail.cf. You write sendmail.mc and compile it. Sendmail.mc on my
system is less than 50 lines long, including comments.
http://www.sendmail.org/m4/intro.html
That's as poorly documented and incomprehensible as .cf by hand. What is
your interest in sendmail? Are you connected with it in someway? Surely,
yours could not be the opinion of someone who doesn't get a piece of
O'Reilly's royalties. It's the same old crap, give the software away, sell
the documentation.
well shit man - Eric's actually a super nice guy and has made some
major contributions to computing so I reckon he deserves *some*
respect for the work he's done on sendmail.
Evidently by making it necessary to learn yet another scripting language
to configure it. Other than personal profit I cannot see why people are
clinging like grim death to something this fubar. Really, let's go past
this one more time:
"Sure, sendmail.cf is hard to work with so the solution is you learn m4!"
Did you look at the link he offered? How helpful is that?
Beside which, m4 is a PORT. So if sendmail is not configurable without a
port, why isn't it a port?
--
Lars Eighner
http://www.larseighner.com/index.html
8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266
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