How to SMTP (Email) Server Fedora 6?

[Les Mikesell]

Todd Zullinger wrote:

> I managed to find the sendmail-cf package or whatever it's called
> without much issue.  I find it laughable that the simple config for
> sendmail is done using m4 macros.  What the hell is wrong with simple
> key/value pairs?  So when I say it is obtuse I am not referring to
> complete gibberish in the real config file, I'm talking about the
> sendmail.mc method.

Much of what we like about unix came from a tradition of re-using 
general purpose tools instead of re-inventing them for each new program 
and at the time sendmail needed a macro preprocessor, m4 was the general 
purpose tool already available.  Today it's syntax seems a bit odd but 
it still does its job.  But my point about it is that everything is 
obscure until you've seen an example.  If working examples were included 
that you could just activate, it wouldn't matter if the contents seemed 
obscure or not. Hardly anyone needs to invent a new mail technique these 
days - you just need a copy of something that already works.

> Anyway, I ditched sendmail long ago and I don't follow its development
> at all.  It's among the first thing gone from any installs I do.

That's unfortunate, because in combination with MimeDefang it becomes 
perhaps the most efficient and versatile way to handle mail.

>> Sendmail is no different in terms of security holes than named,
>> sshd, ftpd, or the kernel itself.  They've all had security holes
>> and fixed them.  Why single out sendmail in this respect?
> 
> It's not being singled out.  Network service are disabled by default
> to the greatest extent possible.  AFAIK, only sshd is enabled by
> default, I could be wrong though.  I don't know why you feel that
> sendmail is getting some sort of mistreatment here.

The other services that ship disabled can be enabled by the RedHat 
convention of:
service servicename enable
and made to activate on bootup with
chkconfig servicename on
Do you notice a different treatment compared to having to install 
another package and edit an undocumented file?

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   Les Mikesell
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