On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 03:04:40PM -0500, Richard June wrote:
On Thursday 24 February 2005 14:53, Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 11:45:15AM -0800, Kenneth Porter wrote:
> > There seems to be a lot of dissatisfaction with sendmail in the call to
> > replace it with Exim or Postfix, but I didn't see any specifics about why
> > people object to it. Anyone care to give details?
>
> Most of the discusion has been about what should be the default. For
> "newbies" sendmail can be a pain to configure. It's documentation
leaves
> something to be desired, and the default sendmail.cf file isn't all that
> helpful.
>
> That's not to say that sendmail isn't useful or does't work properly.
It
> does. But if a package is going to be the default for a distribution, it
> should also be fairly simple for new users to configure and adapt to.
I take issue to that. sendmail has always been *TONS* easier for me to
configure then postfix/exim. the sendmail.mc file is simple to understand and
edit.
I guess we'll have to agree to disagree. Anything that requires using m4 after
editing a config file isn't intuitive IMHO.
josh