Sendmail configuration [LWN.net]

Sendmail configuration

Posted Feb 3, 2011 1:20 UTC (Thu) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)
In reply to: Sendmail configuration by rfunk
Parent article: LCA: Lessons from 30 years of Sendmail

>And that higher level is what we have with pretty much every other major MTA around today. They don't have the total flexibility of sendmail.cf

They do. They just use external modules for that, which is a GOOD thing. I have a set of nice Python scripts to process mail from automatic monitoring systems, and they work just fine with Postfix.

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Sendmail configuration

Posted Feb 3, 2011 13:12 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] (1 responses)

They don't. Virtually all currently-live MTAs other than sendmail are constrained to RFC822-format email addresses, for instance. sendmail is not.
(These days, of course, that is a completely useless 'feature', but there's no denying that supporting it is a kind of flexibility that sendmail possesses that other MTAs do not.)

Sendmail configuration

Posted Feb 3, 2011 23:35 UTC (Thu) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]

I think that can be done in qmail (well, everything can be done in qmail) and I think it can be done in Postfix.