From: ldo@nz.invalid

On Sun, 1 Feb 2026 15:22:44 -0000 (UTC), Lars Poulsen wrote:

> And as sendmail.cf became entirely too unwieldy, they "solved" it my
> adding a completely different "high-level" configuration language in
> the form of M4 with option names that were similar to the ones in
> sendmail itself, but spelled slightly differently. I never got the
> hang of writing in sendmail.mc, preferring to hand edit sendmail.cf,
> but only in areas where I needed to (which were very rarely needed
> and confined to a single line at a time.

I bought the Sendmail book. Started out with hand edits of
sendmail.cf, as you had to do at the time. Then a new version
introduced the macro system, but I couldn’t figure out how to convert
our config to the new format, so kept the old one. Then, after many
more months (possibly a year) of dithering about whether or not to
switch to a new MTA, one day I bit the bullet and gave Postfix a try.

Never looked back after that.

> Postfix also has a lot of possible configuration, but it was
> surprisingly easy to get a basic configuration up and running.

Yeah! A lot of power, nicely organized into lots of config keywords,
all documented in detail, so you understand pretty clearly what each
one does, and how they interact.

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