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Sendmail Enabler for Mac OS X

Posted by pudge on from the but-sendmail-configuration-is-like-totally-easy dept.

gulker writes "It's really nice to be able to use sendmail as a SMTP server on a PowerBook if you move around a lot. But enabling sendmail on OS X is non-trivial, and while a good tutorial exists, the stock Mac OS X 10.2 package is missing the m4 macro processor needed to regenerate sendmail.cf. So it was great news to hear about Bernard Teo's Sendmail Enabler, a cool Aqua-GUI-interface sendmail 'configurator' for Mac OS X."

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  1. Why sendmail is good for Apple servers by Nightlily · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'm happy to hear some allowed us to enable Sendmail. I know there are other SMTP servers out there (Postfix), but Sendmail is not a horrible mail server. Yes, there are bugs (any product that is used will have bugs reported eventually). Now, Exchange server.... that's a horrible mail server.

    The best part about this news is that it gives Mac users more options. Regardless if you like a project or not, the ability to choose between server products helps advance the Apple server platform.

    1. Re:Why sendmail is good for Apple servers by sid+crimson · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Repeat after me: Exchange is not a mail server, it's a Groupware package.

      Anyone using it strictly for mail deserves what they get. The rest of us deserve... well... erm. Nevermind. :-)

      -sid

  2. Re:Sendmail?! by Mikey-San · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If anything, Sendmail is less secure than Postfix, bro. And not part of the OS? Well, get ready for Postfix, 'cause it's in Panther in the place of Sendmail. ;-)

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  3. Re:Sendmail?! by sporty · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No, I'm not kidding. If we seperated every single piece, you can suffer what some DB schema's suffer from, over normalization. qmail REALLY suffers from this in its goal of security.

    If qmail for instance, since spamassassin doesn't know a thing about the mail system in front of it, it can't tell qmail not to bounce a message from a spammer.. nor can qmail figure this out. So now it bounces mail and then when it can't reach the spamemr, it bounced to postmaster. Joy.

    I understand the philosophy of "do one thing and do it well". Do you understand trying to spread yourself too thin? Ever take a look at the redhat configuration scripts? THAT is spreading all of the functionality over too many things, that it is convoluded.

    So let sendmail do what it does well.. process mail. Just so long as it doesn't try to do ftp and my other services as well.

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