Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!ox.com!ox.com!emv From: emv@ox.com (Ed Vielmetti) Subject: Re: sendmail shock. Bibliography? In-Reply-To: pa@appmag.com's message of 1 Apr 91 17:36:22 GMT Message-ID: Sender: usenet@ox.com (Usenet News Administrator) Organization: OTA Limited Partnership, Ann Arbor MI. References: <1991Apr1.173622.12281@appmag.com> Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1991 02:58:07 GMT In article <1991Apr1.173622.12281@appmag.com> pa@appmag.com (Pierre Asselin) writes: The title pretty much says it. I'm a new Unix sysadmin and I'm going to have to hack sendmail.cf real soon now. I can read man pages, but in this case I need a book to get started. I want technical information, not generalities: If your mailer situation is simple enough (no oddball dec-20's to code around, no vms gatewaying, connnections to not very many other sites) and your load is not too enormous, then smail 3 is quite a reasonable alternative to sendmail. configurations can be mercifully short and uncryptic. adding and subtracting ways of doing things is broken down reasonably well so that you can make a change here without having to reconstruct the entire configuratino. If you don't already have a working sendmail configuration, I see no reason to go and try to create one now. -- Msen Edward Vielmetti /|--- moderator, comp.archives emv@msen.com "With all of the attention and publicity focused on gigabit networks, not much notice has been given to small and largely unfunded research efforts which are studying innovative approaches for dealing with technical issues within the constraints of economic science." RFC 1216