>>But there's the issue of how much the software and its documentation and =
>>all help or hinder the process.  Eg, the sendmail docs i found were =
>>organised by option, which made them good only if you already knew what =
>>you were looking for.  Exim's were organised more conceptually; lots of =
>>easy-to-find "How To Do X".
>
>Hmph you have not looked at decent sendmail documentation.  Grab a
>copy of the O'Reilly Sendmail book (aka the bat book, isbn
>1-56592-222-0) and read.  That shows you how to build a sendmail.cf
>from scratch starting with the bare bones and working upwards.

actually...it's a little dated (1995), but the sendmail (that's the
title) book by paul vixie and frederick avolio (isbn 1-55558-127-7) is
also a very good book for this.  it _does_ go through the steps
involved in writing a cf file from scratch, giving much more theory
than the o'reilly book.

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