Re: KMail Addressbook: Group names for mutiple addresses?

Florian Diesch wrote:
Peter Chant <REMpeteOVE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Tom Newton wrote:

Sendmail is a very complex application designed for use as a mail server
on a large lan or the internet.

But works perfectly fine on my desktop as well, and likely countless hundred
others. Also in default install on Slackware and I don't doubt many other
distros.

Today most distros have Postfix or Exim as default MTA.

RedHat and its variants still use Sendmail. What Sendmail is is *OLD*, heavily patched and upgraded to support modern features, and written at a time when configuration setups were..... not so graceful as today due to lack of resources. It's very well tested as an industrial grade MTA: many folks find others easier to configure or apply new features to, such as SPF or sophisticated spam filtering.

Also you can use spamassassin and procmail with it to
scan and filter your mail. Don't think you can do that without some sort
of MTA on your machine.

fetchmail can invoke procmail too. That's how I get my incoming mail.

So can plenty of other MTA's.

Never have been a 'pro'. Did get some help in the early days (more than 10
years back) from a friend who was a system admin - but at least on
Slackware very little configuration is needed nowadays. Presume similar
across other distros.

Sionce they have m4 macros to build the sendmail.cf all the common
things are quite easy.

Except, of course, for what is not in the m4 macrose! I've had to do that a few times.

Also from experience once you have configured sendmail it just works - no
fuss. Of course this is on a single user machine - comments about 10000
user server crashes do not apply.

If your hardware can handle it 10000 users shouldn't be a problem for
any serious MTA.

You've never had to run MS Exchange in comparison to Sendmail, have you? *Shudder*. I laughed like a hyena when the place I worked had to put a sendmail server in front of the Exchange Server to take in all incoming email, because the Exchange server couldn't take two simultaneous incoming SMTP connections. (It's a known old bug, long since fixed.)
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