On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 13:33 +0000, Paul Howarth wrote: > Frank Elsner wrote: > > On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 18:16:02 +0500 azeem ahmad wrote: > > > > [ ... ] > > > > > >>ok, its good. but whats about that popular servers, i.e. sendmail and qmail. > >>should these not be used? if yes. then for which reasons. > > > > > > If you have never configured sendmail you are not a sys admin. > > If you have configured twice you are an idiot. > > Ooh, a bit harsh. Some of us (Hi Alexander!) have grown up with sendmail > and are very comfortable with it. However, it's not the easiest thing to > configure and I'd probably advocate postfix for a beginner since its > configuration is much more straightforward. > > As for qmail, I wouldn't bother. Out-of-the-box it's not fit to connect > to the public Internet (it's a backscatter engine for starters), and a > good number of patches are needed to create a modern server setup. > Normally this wouldn't be a problem as you could just pick up an RPM > with the necessary patches applied, but the qmail license actually > forbids the distribution of such RPMs, so you're unlikely to find one > (at least legally). > > Paul. > I felt that hit on sendmail too. I would agree that it is hard to master.... (if anyone really masters it). However, I have always been able to accomplish what I wanted by doing a little background reading. Greg
