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June 14, 2009

How not to set up web-based email

I was trying to send an email to a local technical organization. This is a group of people hosted at a local University engineering department. I typed my message, hit send and this is what I was greeted with:

And a detail of exactly what caught my eye:

I am thinking of heading into town tomorrow so I'll just swing by and talk with them. Surprised they are still using sendmail and not Postfix. Gaaaa -- I had to administer a sendmail system once. It had already been installed when I was hired. I put up with it for about three months and then switched them over to Postfix when they did a server upgrade -- much better for the end user and for the admin... Posted by DaveH at June 14, 2009 1:02 PM

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Meh. I administered a sendmail system for > 100K employees for years. It really isn't the booger people claim it to be. Most folks that find it a pain are editing sendmail.cf directly, when sendmail.mc might have 10 lines in it... And sendmail.mc is generally portable from release to release. Even Eric Allman has been quoted to say something along the lines of "I don't ever touch sendmail.cf... that's crazy."

Posted by: Spork at June 14, 2009 5:13 PM