Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 07:17:30 -0700 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Mark Drayton" <mark.drayton@4thwave.co.uk> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: [going OT] Re: Any mail server software that could run on FreeBSD? Message-ID: <011401c0cfed$f5d2b700$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <20010428112840.B7944@tethys.valhalla.net>
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>-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Mark Drayton >> I checked there were no such books on exim, postfix or qmail. Maybe >> that has changed, but having a book published by O'Reilly on a piece >> of software is usually a pretty good indication that it is a widely >> used piece of software. > >The latest version of the O'Reilly book was published in Jan 1997, over >4 years ago when sendmail really was *the only* available mature MTA. > Hmm.... O'Reilly hasn't published a book on FreeBSD..... However, I have to ask, have you actually READ the O'Reilly Sendmail book? If you had, you would find that 99% of the book is about the syntax of the *.cf file. Years ago, the .cf file stopped being hand-generated on most systems, and they went to automatic generation using the .mc file. In fact, today the Sendmail docs explicitly say NOT to modify the sendmail.cf file. Most of the FUD about Sendmail centers on obsolete fears of the complexity of the .cf file. Now do you see why the status of the O'Reilly book on Sendmail might be just a teeny, tiny bit IRRELEVANT these days? Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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