From: zsd@jdvb.ca   
      
   On 2025-12-17 at 12:22 AST, jayjwa  wrote:   
   > Jim  writes:   
   >   
   >> I never had these issues when I used sendmail.  (But I switched to postfix   
   >> when "everyone" told me it was nicer and newer and shinier than sendmail,   
   >> and that sendmail was a horrible security hazard, and ...)   
      
   > That was your mistake. Sendmail is GOAT.   
      
   Oh yeah, and I've heard that if you run sendmail your dog will bite you and   
   run away with the postman, your hair will fall out, your investments will   
   all tank, ... :-)   
      
   > It's still being actively developed. The security issues were likely from   
   > decades ago or even last century. It's been tried and proven and can   
   > route mail no others can (UUCP, mail11).   
      
   And yet Pat V dispatched sendmail to the wasteland of extra/.  :-)   
      
   Not that I can't install it from there.  But (as I recall) I was running   
   into some issues with my outgoing mail servers no longer accepting mail   
   that didn't have a "From:" address in their domain, and (almost) all of   
   them wanting authentication, and needing to configure things so that   
   sendmail or postfix or ... would attempt the correct form of authentication   
   with the right credentials depending on the email's "From:" address.   
   IIRC someone was able to set me on the straight and narrow for postfix, and   
   I wasn't having luck with sendmail, so over to the (supposedly) easier   
   postfix I went.   
      
   Cheers.   
                                   Jim   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)