Announcing Fedora 12 Alpha

[Peter Robinson]

>> > > As I said, I was literally unable to get sendmail working despite
>> > > spending an entire weekend on it,
>> >
>> > It would be really interesting to know what you were attempting to
>> > do and how you "over-thought" that installation.
>>
>> It was quite a while back, I don't recall exactly what I was trying to
>> set it up to do and what problems I ran into.
>
> Hm, sounds like some fifteen years, or so, back.  There were indeed
> times when configuring sendmail required messing directly with
> sendmail.cf and that borders on a "black magic". :-)  Only you do
> not have to do that longer that I care to remember.

Yes, black magic it was, but for 10 years or so its had sendmail.m4 to
allow you to configure it relatively simply (simply being a relative
term to what it was prviously) with macros but its still has issues. I
would think postfix is a reasonable medium, its relatively modern and
lightweight (exim needs perl) and if someone particularly wants
sendmail I think they would also be able to work out how to do a 'yum
install sendmail'. If they know how to configure a particular mta they
can certainly work out how to use yum to or packagekit to install it.

Peter