Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!mp.cs.niu.edu!rickert From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: Easy administered mailers (transfer agent) Message-ID: <1990Nov29.013021.31278@mp.cs.niu.edu> Date: 29 Nov 90 01:30:21 GMT References: Organization: Northern Illinois University Lines: 23 In article sveer@sssab.se (Sven L Eriksson) writes: >I'm looking for a mailer that doesn't demand too much knowledge or >work by the system administrator. Does anyone know about any such thing? > >I have looked at sendmail, smail-3 and smail-2.5. Sendmail is very >powerful but if an experienced person needs 5 days to understand its >documentation and try out a configuration that suits his site, how >long will it take a less experienced person? I have seen the IDA-kit. >It's nice but only for people who already understand sendmail. Have another look at sendmail/IDA. If you prepare a running system for your users with a MAILERTABLE, possibly a PATHTABLE, and with PSEUDONYMS defined to be a file name, then they could do almost everything they would ever need simply by adding additional local aliases to the PSEUDONYMS file, or changing one or two entries in MAILERTABLE or PATHTABLE for changing routes. Then a 'make' would change everything that needed to be changed. They would never need to understand anything about configuring sendmail. -- =*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*= Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science Northern Illinois Univ. DeKalb, IL 60115. +1-815-753-6940