Sendmail is a bloated pig written by an apparently deranged amateur programmer.

But everybody seems to use it, and to deal with its many warts and other
damage because it has been around for soooooo long.

-Mike


On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Hume Smith wrote:

> > Hmph you have not looked at decent sendmail documentation.  Grab a
> > copy of the O'Reilly Sendmail book
> 
> This actually enforces my point; i needed the documentation more immediately than running into the city hoping to find a bookstore would do.  The sendmail docs i found on the web were useless.  I wan't going to go on a hunt for a book that may or may not exist.  exim was well-documented, i could tell immediately it could do what i wanted and how; it turned out to be far easier to change over to it.
> 
> BTW: -why- all this sendmail evangelism?  Can't a person have an opinion different from "Sendmail is The Way to Go"?  (that's +/- what started all this...)
> 
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> Hume Smith  <URL:http://www.glinx.com/users/hclsmith/>