[olug] sendmail help - speed up delivery from the queue

Dave Thacker dthacker9 at cox.net
Wed Feb 20 03:56:51 UTC 2008


On Tuesday 19 February 2008 20:47:38 Christopher Cashell wrote:
> On Feb 19, 2008 5:20 PM, Obi-Wan <obiwan at jedi.com> wrote:
> > Yeah, that's why I switched to Postfix.  There's fewer knobs to turn.
>
> "I'm kinda surprised that after all this time, sendmail's config is
> still based on ancient hieroglyphs. (To enable sender-validation in
> sendmail, enable this option: bird, squiggley line, sideways man,
> fish)"
>
> I went to Qmail back in '96, as the best available alternative to
> Sendmail.  When I rebuilt that mail system last year, I finally moved
> to Postfix.  I have to say, I've never regretted leaving behind the
> horror of sendmail.cf. ;-)
>
> > Ben "Obi-Wan" Hollingsworth                             obiwan at jedi.com

+1 for postfix.  

Dave Thacker





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