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Re: Free mail server: sendmail vs. qmail

>Sendmail, I am learning, is a pain to set up, you cant change the
conf file
>after it's compiled - you have to compile all of the configurations
into it
>with m4 - I'm sure that9s a security fix, seems like a kludge though.

It's neither a security fix nor a kludge... nor is it true. You
don't have to recompile sendmail to alter the config file. The major
problem with sendmail is that its config file is the most ugly format
in existence (make gets the runner up from what I understand) and
that the whole m4 config system makes it really easy to set up a good
config. You want a new one? Alter the primary configs and run the
script to get your new config file. You do not need to recompile
sendmail itself. You can also edit the config file by hand if you
know how (the O'Rilley book's got info on the format I think) but the
m4 system is just a lot easier. A lot of security stuff is handled
by m4, but if you knew the sendmail config format you could implement
those yourself. Remaking the config file's not such a big deal, and
it certainly doesn't require a whole sendmail recomp.

- David Nusinow
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