[NTLUG:Discuss] mail server question

briank@hex.net briank at hex.net
Sun Feb 27 14:00:25 CST 2000


On Fri, Feb 25, 2000 at 08:22:15PM -0600, Gregory A. Edwards wrote:
 
> Bobby,
> 
> Not to be condensending, sendmail is pretty simple to setup a very basic
> configuration.  Getting through all of the written crap about m4 and the
> rules, yadda-yadda and finding the simple answer is the problem.

The security holes to be found in sendmail is enough reason, IMO, to
use another MTA.  And the simplicity of setting up sendmail, once you
go beyond the constraints of "a very basic configuration," as you
point out, begins to diminish quite rapidly the more complex of a
configuration that is required.

  --Brian




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