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Sendmail configuration

Posted Feb 3, 2011 23:11 UTC (Thu) by brianomahoney (subscriber, #6206)
In reply to: Sendmail configuration by rfunk
Parent article: LCA: Lessons from 30 years of Sendmail

There is nothing wrong with the 'sendmail.cf' syntax except that you need a programmer, not an admin, to make major changes. The syntax and semantics of sendmail rules are one of the best documented of all configs.

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Posted Feb 3, 2011 23:41 UTC (Thu) by rfunk (subscriber, #4054) [Link]

Yes, sendmail.cf is well-documented and logical, but (at least for modern times) it's too terse and low-level.

It's more procedural than declarative, which is why you need a programmer to change it.

There's really no excuse for its alphabet soup of mailer flags.

And yet I'll happily take sendmail.cf over sendmail.mc.