John Plemons wrote:
Having used and configured both Send mail and Postfix, sendmail was and
had it's issues. I found it much easier to work with on Open Relays for
example, the draw back with Sendmail and Postfix may be along the lines
of Windows and a Mac, there are bunches of Windows machines
on 4-2-2008 1:46 PM Chris Miller spake the following:
John Plemons wrote:
Real simple answer, switch to Postfix and dump sendmail. Then edit
your alias file to add the aliases, run newaliases and you're done...
I just don't understand why people still gripe about Sendmail. Yeah, it
was a for
Having used and configured both Send mail and Postfix, sendmail was and
had it's issues. I found it much easier to work with on Open Relays for
example, the draw back with Sendmail and Postfix may be along the lines
of Windows and a Mac, there are bunches of Windows machines in the world
so eve
On Wed, 2 Apr 2008, Chris Miller wrote:
John Plemons wrote:
Real simple answer, switch to Postfix and dump sendmail. Then
edit your alias file to add the aliases, run newaliases and you're
done...
I just don't understand why people still gripe about Sendmail. Yeah,
it was a force to be r
John Plemons wrote:
Real simple answer, switch to Postfix and dump sendmail. Then edit your
alias file to add the aliases, run newaliases and you're done...
I just don't understand why people still gripe about Sendmail. Yeah,
it was a force to be reckoned with in the early days, but it's
stu
Scott Silva wrote:
on 4-2-2008 4:41 AM Brent L. Bates spake the following:
Sendmail used to automatically compare creation dates of the text
and
database aliases files and when the text one was newer than the
database one,
sendmail would automatically update the database file at a convenie
The excuse given for removing the automatic update of the aliases
database file was that it was a security issue. The thought was that someone
could tapper with the file and cause problems. However, all these files are
checked for proper file permissions and if they are not set correctly,
se
Real simple answer, switch to Postfix and dump sendmail. Then edit your
alias file to add the aliases, run newaliases and you're done...
john
.
Scott Silva wrote:
on 4-2-2008 4:41 AM Brent L. Bates spake the following:
Sendmail used to automatically compare creation dates of t
on 4-2-2008 4:41 AM Brent L. Bates spake the following:
Sendmail used to automatically compare creation dates of the text and
database aliases files and when the text one was newer than the database one,
sendmail would automatically update the database file at a convenient time.
This made a
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