From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Sun, 1 Feb 2026 15:22:44 -0000 (UTC), Lars Poulsen wrote:   
      
   > And as sendmail.cf became entirely too unwieldy, they "solved" it my   
   > adding a completely different "high-level" configuration language in   
   > the form of M4 with option names that were similar to the ones in   
   > sendmail itself, but spelled slightly differently. I never got the   
   > hang of writing in sendmail.mc, preferring to hand edit sendmail.cf,   
   > but only in areas where I needed to (which were very rarely needed   
   > and confined to a single line at a time.   
      
   I bought the Sendmail book. Started out with hand edits of   
   sendmail.cf, as you had to do at the time. Then a new version   
   introduced the macro system, but I couldn’t figure out how to convert   
   our config to the new format, so kept the old one. Then, after many   
   more months (possibly a year) of dithering about whether or not to   
   switch to a new MTA, one day I bit the bullet and gave Postfix a try.   
      
   Never looked back after that.   
      
   > Postfix also has a lot of possible configuration, but it was   
   > surprisingly easy to get a basic configuration up and running.   
      
   Yeah! A lot of power, nicely organized into lots of config keywords,   
   all documented in detail, so you understand pretty clearly what each   
   one does, and how they interact.   
      
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