[ale] Sendmail permissions issue

[Jim Popovitch]

Emil Man wrote:
> Andrew,
> 
> I remember the sendmail.cf file being something like 700 lines 
> long, whereas my current postfix config file is much shorter.

The thing most people mistake about Sendmail is they think sendmail.cf 
is the file they need to edit.  It's not.  Sendmail uses the standard 
Gnu m4 macro processor to build .cf files.  My sendmail.mc file is at 
most 25 lines, and the power of it coupled with milters is much more 
powerful than what other MTAs can do.  With sendmail I can filter email 
"in-line", via milters, rather than forking processes left/right to 
validate email.  Some other MTAs have similar MTA extension 
capabilities, but not Postfix (I wish it did).  With Postfix it's all 
pipe-n-execute (new pid, new process, cleanup, etc) for every processed 
email.

I'm not trying to start a Vi-Emacs style war, just trying to inform. ;-)

-Jim P.