Tally
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exim - 1
sendmail (didn't indicate version) - 1
sendmail 8.6 (Suns version) - 1
sendmail 8.7.5 - 1
sendmail 8.8.X - 11
people who said they didn't like Sun's sendmail - 4
Interesting links
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http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/usail/mail/installation/
http://www.sendmail.org/
http://www.jensen.com/sendmail/
ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/sendmail
http://smc.vnet.net/solaris_2.5_nof.html
http://www.exim.org
Anti-SPAM links
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http://spam.abuse.net/
http://www.sendmail.org/antispam.html
http://www.informatik.uni-kiel.de/%7Eca/email/check.html
Other interesting tidbits
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- For sendmail V8, there is a technique for generating the sendmail.cf
called the "m4" technique.
- Recommended book is O'Reilly's 2nd edition Sendmail book.
- Recommended USENET newsgroup is comp.mail.sendmail
Just some personal notes:
I picked up the 2nd edition Sendmail book, and read the first 190 pages so
far. If you're new to sendmail, or you just want a refresher, this is a
"must" book to get.
I downloaded the latest version of sendmail (8.8.7) and tried to install
it. The first time I tried, it failed on the final loading of the object
files. The problem ended up being that the compiler I was using was the
/usr/ucb/cc compiler and not the /opt/SUNWspro/bin/cc compiler. I fully
qualified the compiler name in the makefile, and everything ran perfectly.
The only other thing I had to do was change the Makefile so that it used
nroff instead of groff and changed the MANDOC variable to be -man.
I also used the m4 utilities to create my sendmail.cf. So far, it's been
working fine (note however that this is on a small system, and I don't
get much traffic though).
The hardware and software that was involved were:
SPARCstation 10/40
Solaris 2.6
Sun's C compiler 4.0
- Thanks, Steven.