On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 03:04:40PM -0500, Richard June wrote: > On Thursday 24 February 2005 14:53, Josh Boyer wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 11:45:15AM -0800, Kenneth Porter wrote: > > > There seems to be a lot of dissatisfaction with sendmail in the call to > > > replace it with Exim or Postfix, but I didn't see any specifics about why > > > people object to it. Anyone care to give details? > > > > Most of the discusion has been about what should be the default. For > > "newbies" sendmail can be a pain to configure. It's documentation leaves > > something to be desired, and the default sendmail.cf file isn't all that > > helpful. > > > > That's not to say that sendmail isn't useful or does't work properly. It > > does. But if a package is going to be the default for a distribution, it > > should also be fairly simple for new users to configure and adapt to. > > I take issue to that. sendmail has always been *TONS* easier for me to > configure then postfix/exim. the sendmail.mc file is simple to understand and > edit. I guess we'll have to agree to disagree. Anything that requires using m4 after editing a config file isn't intuitive IMHO. josh
