[ale] Sendmail makes me cry.

[Michael B. Trausch]

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Philip Polstra wrote:
> I would suggest you upgrade to postfix as your MTA, because it is easier
> to administor, and some would say more secure.
> 
> If you are using postfix in your /etc/postfix/main.cf file you just need
> to put in something like this:
> myhostname = machine
> mydomain = company.com <http://company.com>
> 
> I will tell you that this is what I do internally for my home network. 
> I have switched to using my ISP's SMTP server for outbound mail,
> however.  The reason for the switch is that everyone keeps bouncing my
> mail because I don't have a static IP.  If you have a static IP then
> this shouldn't be a problem.
> 

I think I might just do that... I've pretty much given up on Sendmail at
this point.

This makes me think of something I once read in the UNIX-HATERS
Handbook... IIRC, they had an entire chapter devoted to sendmail, and
while it's more secure then it used to be, it has gotten to be so
complex.  After actually attempting to understand sendmail's
configuration, I'm still pretty clueless.

I think I'll just put Postfix on.  I was thinking about it, but I didn't
want to go through the trouble of changing MTA's since I'm already this
far in the setup process.  (Essentially, I'm just waiting for the GUI
interface that we wanted on here to finish building...)

	- Mike
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