From: tnp@invalid.invalid

On 01/02/2026 03:02, rbowman wrote:
> On Sat, 31 Jan 2026 21:22:20 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
>
>> Maybe not what you want to hear, but perhaps this is a good time to give
>> up on Sendmail, and switch to a more rationally-designed MTA.
>
> My memory of sendmail is it filled one of the thicker O'Reilly books all
> by itself.

Indeed. And I owned it.
In the end it got so complicated that I rewrote sendmail.cf from scratch.
Got it down to about a page.

All configuration went in half a dozen text files.
That was before encryption and authentication, though.

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private property.

Karl Marx

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