RE: MTA Recommendations

From: itbitch.com (sideone@itbitch.com)
Date: 09/10/02


From: "itbitch.com" <sideone@itbitch.com>
To: "matthew" <matthew@devney.net>, <security-basics@securityfocus.com>, "Chris Santerre" <csanterre@MerchantsOverseas.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 10:10:54 -0400

Matthew -

>> Really. It's hard to get any simpler than that. It annoys me when
people
>> say that sendmail is hard to configure.

well, the inital config is actually very easy. For me, the part that gets
cryptic is the actual hacking of the sendmail.cf file. The rulesets are
quite a pain to setup in my opinion.

sideone

-----Original Message-----
From: matthew [mailto:matthew@devney.net]
Sent: Sunday, September 08, 2002 12:26 AM
To: itbitch.com
Cc: Chris Santerre; security-basics@securityfocus.com
Subject: RE: MTA Recommendations

I've set up Sendmail several dozen times, and only the first time was
difficult in the least. I'd like to make this clear to anyone I possibly
can:

If you're even looking at sendmail.cf, you already messed up.

Setting up Sendmail, for more than 99% of the installs out there, is:
- download source.
- tar zxf source.
- cd into source dir.

-- SNIP --



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