Since we've breached into the always divisive unix sysadmin topics
of MTA's - I'll throw my two cents in:
Folks are always panning Sendmail for it configuration complexity,
security holes, and whatever the trolls (not here, elsewhere) throw
at it.
And with good reason.
Don't believe it: configuration is easy, especially in installations
where only one MTA server is required for a domain, & debugging and
testing are pervasively supported. Security problems are discovered
and patched quickly.
Yes but it *is* so contorted that you even need a macro processor
just to compile the real configuration file ;)
Sendmail is very very powerful and efficient at its task as an MTA,
and supports just about any kind of configuration you need. There
are many excellent books on the care and feeding of Sendmail.
As are all modern MTAs designed to replace it.
Plus, if you need to weird contortions in your configuration, paid
support is available.
Hey, we, and many others, provide support not just for sendmail, but
for postfix, qmail (ick!), and exim. It's not like getting support
for any of these is hard.
I'm not going to deride exim though!
So why not use it? Especially considering how George make it so easy
under OS X.
Contrast this to sendmail, which very few Mac-heads get at all.
But yes, sendmail gets a bad, in not deserved, rap.
--
-dhan
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