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Tried to learn Sendmail in 1995

Tried to learn Sendmail in 1995

Posted Feb 3, 2011 2:16 UTC (Thu) by brouhaha (subscriber, #1698)
Parent article: LCA: Lessons from 30 years of Sendmail

I tried to learn Sendmail when I registered my own domain and set up a server in 1995. My requirements weren't that complicated, but I never good get it to work the way I wanted, even with help from the guy that maintained the Sendmail configuration at my day job. I went looking for a "Sendmail for Dummies" book, but of course there isn't one, and I later realized that expecting one is about like expecting to find "Quantum Chromodynamics for Dummies".

I switched to Qmail, and had no trouble getting it to do what I needed. More recently I switched from Qmail to Postfix.


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Tried to learn Sendmail in 1995

Posted Feb 6, 2011 18:51 UTC (Sun) by njs (guest, #40338) [Link]

Quantum Chromodynamics for Dummies
That's actually more easily available.

Tried to learn Sendmail in 1995

Posted Feb 6, 2011 18:51 UTC (Sun) by njs (guest, #40338) [Link]

Doh, I mixed up chromodynamics and electodynamics. How embarrassing!

Tried to learn Sendmail in 1995

Posted Feb 6, 2011 20:11 UTC (Sun) by Trelane (subscriber, #56877) [Link]

Understandable. Exposure to QCD, I'd expect, would tend to color your thinking.

*cough*

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