30 Nov
2018
30 Nov
'18
1:28 a.m.
On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 12:13:53PM -0700, Grant Taylor via TUHS wrote:
Yeah, it's been easy since whoever did the macros so you picked a config
close to yours, changed a couple of host names and off you go.
It's surprisingly similar to troff. Writing docs in raw troff is doable,
I've done it a bunch of times, but it's more pleasant with a macro
package (I'm a fan of -ms, tried the others, just keep coming back to
-ms because it hits the sweet spot of enough stuff without being overly
complicated).
On 11/29/2018 11:48 AM, Larry McVoy wrote:
I can't back this up with a citation but my belief is that was just that
everything worked for them, it was a simple system, you could write an
SMTP server in a tiny perl script, so why all the complexity?
If you live in a simple world you see things as being simple. Sendmail
was not living in a simple world.
Indeed. Sendmail got a lot of hate but mostly
from people in pure
user(a)host.domain worlds.
Do you have any idea why the user(a)host.domain community hated on Sendmail
more than other communities? I lived in the
UUCP / BitNet / Arpanet world and while sendmail was
definitely not the easiest thing to configure, once you got it right it
just kept working (unlike UUCP that seemed to need constant babysitting).
I think that's still fair to say.
Though simple Sendmail configurations are relatively easy to set up.