Re: [Sheflug] sendmail & cannons

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On Tue, 22 Jan 2002 20:52:33 +0000
"Chris J" <cej [at] nccnet.co.uk> wrote:

> 
> > Can someone explain the action of the sendmail FEATURE('nocanonify')?
> 
> Huh - a dull question like that? I thought we were about to discuss the 
> control of big guns via email notifications :)

Ah! Got your attention though :)

> So I 
> think it's a term that's falling out of favour outside sendmail :)

Maybe we've got enough Saints already.
 
> m4 macros, sendmail.cf and the shear bloat of sendmail (with the ability
to > tweak whether messages from domain foo need to be directed via UUCP
down the > piece of wet string to a waiting bucket) was one of the big
reasons I left it > (other being security).
> 
> qmail and postfix are a little leaner and a tad easier to configure :)
qmail > requires DNS somewhere however, postfix doesn't need it.

Sendmail seems to have passed the wrath of deraadt to make it into
OpenBSD.

I have played with qmail but it is a bugger to set up to relay for my
subnet - it doesn't directly have a list of subnets it will relaying for
you have to set it up as an open relay and have tcpd do it's access
control for it (I didn't have tcpd on the machine so I left it alone).

Postfix I played with breifly when I tried NetBSD and it seemed pretty
good but I have a sendmail setup that works and I am loathe to leave it.

How can you deliver mail with no DNS? Replies to bob [at] 217.135.66.214 :)

thanks

A. Basterfield
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