[OpenIndiana-discuss] Sendmail on oi 151_a9

[Jonathan Adams]

I have to agree with Predrag, "postfix" is really easy to set up, and is
the default on most Linux systems nowadays.

I don't personally use it, for our systems at work, but that is mostly to
do with how it handles aliases.

alias1: buddy, helen
alias2: buddy, alias1

sending mail to "alias2" will send 2 copies to buddy, and one to helen.

also "/usr/lib/sendmail -bv <alias>" doesn't show the expansion of aliases,
but emails a test message to that alias.

other than that postfix is very powerful, and has the ability to forward
outgoing as well as incoming messages to a specific mailbox.

Jon

On 14 October 2014 06:02, Predrag Zecevic <predrag.zecevic at 2e-systems.com>
wrote:

> Am 13.10.2014 um 23:03 schrieb Harry Putnam:
>
>  Bob Friesenhahn <bfriesen at simple.dallas.tx.us> writes:
>>
>>  On Mon, 13 Oct 2014, Harry Putnam wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> I have yet to find much that is helpful in creating a sendmail.mc.  I
>>>> have not found a single example of a sendmail.mc in those docs.
>>>>
>>>> There are piles of information about how to test, what to do once you
>>>> have a working sendmail.mc... but precious little about actually
>>>> creating one.
>>>>
>>>> Apparently it was felt the reader should already know the nuts and
>>>> bolts of creating sendmail.cf
>>>>
>>>
>>> Oracle documentation is almost the last place you would want to go to
>>> learn about configuring sendmail.
>>>
>>
>> Thank you, yes, I agree.
>>
>>  The best information available may be found on your system in the file
>>> /etc/mail/cf/README, which is provided by the sendmail package.
>>>
>>
>> I've used that file many times to look up what one or another stanza
>> in a sample *.mc was supposed to do.  So, I agree.  Its good to know
>> about. However, in 4311 lines there is not one concrete example of a
>> sendmail.mc that user can take apart rearrange and etc.
>>
>> It turns out on oi, oi-hipster the setup is all rigged up in
>> /etc/mail/cf/cf with makefiles that pull out the m4 tools for you.
>>
>> You just say `make sendmail.cf' after editing sendmail.mc
>>
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>
> Hi,
>
> did you considered postfix (as sendmail replacement)?
> It is much easier to configure and is present in OI and almost up to date:
> http://pkg.openindiana.org/sfe/en/catalog.shtml.
>
> If you still want to use sendmail, please ignore me.
> Regards.
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