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Sendmail isn't that bad, also mt users: check out wordpress
Sendmail isn't that bad, also mt users: check out wordpress
Posted May 27, 2004 11:16 UTC (Thu) by fredrik (subscriber, #232)In reply to: Qmail: There are great alternatives by alspnost
Parent article: Movable type and "almost free" software
Alspnost,
First, let me say that Sendmail really isn't all that bad as the rumor makes it out to be. The thing to remember is to use m4 to generate the configuration files, instead of trying to hand carve obscure instructions directly. Really, I started out with linux using sendmail and it wasn't until I moved to debian that I also moved to Exim.
Secondly, for all movable type users out there, let me recommend wordpress as a way to move to open source. It's rather automagic to install, and I've heard rumors of a script that can import mt posts to wordpress.
/ Fredrik
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Sendmail isn't that bad, also mt users: check out wordpress
Posted Jun 3, 2004 10:44 UTC (Thu) by ingvar (guest, #1530) [Link]
Erm, surely introducing the m4 mess only made sendmail harder to configure? I could (while jacked up on enough caffeine and well-immersed-enough in line noise) write and make sense of sendmail.cf but no end of assorted tricks have managed to make me happy I understand of the m4 files actually work. Back when I had to maintain a sendmail.cf using the m4 files, I did the sensible thing and frobbed around in the m4, checking the config by reading the raw .cf file and frobbing again, if needed.