[fermigier]

"...Ever tried to set up a Postfix server?" is the new "...Ever tried to set up a Sendmail server?".

(When I was younger, I was told by a veteran sysadmin that only 5 persons in the world knew how to configure Sendmail directly, everyone else was relying on preprocessing scripts written by the aforementioned wizards).

Edit: my point is that Postfix is actually quite easy to configure, compared to Sendmail which was the standard in the 90s.

[thenomad]

OP and writer of the article here.

I'm embarassed to say that I wrote Postfix when I meant Sendmail! I might just go ninja-edit that now :)

[wott]

> When I was younger, I was told by a veteran sysadmin that only 5 persons in the world knew how to configure Sendmail directly, everyone else was relying on preprocessing scripts written by the aforementioned wizards).

Ha! When I jumped into Linux during the summer of 95, I spent many many days and nights writing directly sendmail.cf rules, because I could not understand and use any of those damn M4 scripts... Handwriting sendmail.cf parts was more straightforward for me (for some value of 'straightforward').

20 years later, I have yet to get around to grasping M4.

[humanrebar]

See also: argument-dependent lookup rules in C++

[yjftsjthsd-h]

Is it? I've only modified existing configurations, but Postfix doesn't seem bad.

[dsr_]

Postfix is quite simple, provided you already know how MTAs work and can google the right terms.

Sendmail.cf deserves its reputation.

[yjftsjthsd-h]

> Sendmail.cf deserves its reputation.

Hah; I had to look at a sendmail config a while back for a legacy server. It's line noise.

[chungy]

I've picked Postfix entirely because Exim is difficult and overkill for my purposes...