Re: [PLUG] sendmail installation

[Kevin Falcone <kevin@jibsheet.com>]

>>>>> "WM" == Walt Mankowski <waltman@netaxs.com> writes:

  WM> On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 11:19:21AM -0500, Kevin Falcone wrote:
  >> -kevin, waiting for the "don't use sendmail" flame

  WM> Well, now that you mention it, both exim and qmail are a *lot*
  WM> easier to configure, and neither use "binary" config files.  :-)

It isn't a binary config file, I can read it just fine :)

If you want to look at alternatives, Exim is a nice monolithic
replacement for sendmail, and postfix is also a nice system.  I
believe I saw it described as "a set of mutually untrusting
excutables" on some other list, which is a good thing in my opinion.

I don't like qmail, but that is a personal opinion, and shaped
somewhat by having someone misconfigure qmail so it opened around 40
parallel smtp connections to one of my machines.  MaxDaemonChildren
and ConnectionRateThrottle got tuned way down immediately after that.

Oh, and if someone wants to tell me how to do the equivalent of this
in exim, postfix or qmail I might consider switching:

Msmtp,          P=[IPC], F=mDFMuX, S=11/31, R=21, E=\r\n, L=990,
                T=DNS/RFC822/SMTP,
                A=IPC [127.0.0.1] 2525
Mesmtp,         P=[IPC], F=mDFMuXa, S=11/31, R=21, E=\r\n, L=990,
                T=DNS/RFC822/SMTP,
                A=IPC [127.0.0.1] 2525

It forces all outbound smtp connections to go through port 2525 on the
local host, but still leaves sendmail to accept mail from fetchmail on
port 25.

-kevin

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