We need a new subject- bug fixes
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Mon Mar 5 03:55:57 UTC 2007
Todd Zullinger wrote:
>> Sorry, Rahul, I have to disagree with you there. It is not
>> trivially easy for normal human beings to change anything in
>> sendmail.
>
> Setting up sendmail to receive mail from the internet isn't meant for
> normal human beings.
You mean unlike trivial things like building a working kernel, or
configuring ssh securely, or getting cups to print, or installing a DNS
server?
> It's something that competent system
> administrators do and for those people it is trivial.
Those other things I mentioned are also trivial for the few dozen people
that do them all the time. The rest of us don't have to deal with it
because it works as distributed.
> The only thing
> simpler is noting that sendmail's configuration is utterly confusing
> while perusing the documentation and then switching to postfix or some
> other MTA. But I digress...
That wouldn't be necessary if the distribution supplied a way to
activate a working configuration as it does for other services.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
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