October 2001
Beginner
1024 pages
25h 8m
English
While Sendmail is still widely recognized as the industry-leading MTA by a wide margin, it's not without its faults. It is widely criticized, and one might say rightly so, for its barely comprehensible configuration files, the “Master Config” file in its otherwise almost-unknown m4 format, the proliferation of different runtime files (such as the access database and virtusertable file), and its comparative bulk and sluggishness. If you're comfortable with the way Sendmail works in its default configuration (which usually doesn't take much extra effort), you may have no need to complain. However, if you find you need more speed, less resource consumption, better configurability, or just an alternative, you're ...
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