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Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Thu Jul 21 05:58:46 EDT 2005


In message <022401c58dd9$a6f54a40$66fea8c0 at antecp4>, "Joseph Gray" writes:
>> I still bear the mental scars of having once upon a
>> time hand-edited the sendmail configuration file...
>>
>> John
>
>I've actually done that at least twice, in years past. I must have been 
>dumber then :-)
>
>I have to agree about Postfix. It is so much nicer.

Almost 20 years ago when Denmark got a line to the Internet I rewrote
the sendmail.cf of the central hub ("dkuug") overnight to handle not
only X.400, EARN, BITNET, UUCP but now also TCP/IP.  Since then
I have maintained that life is too short for sendmail.cf.

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Poul-Henning Kamp       | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20
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