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The Lounge What is on Your Mind? Why older administrators prefer sendmail ? Post 302516676 by Perderabo on Sunday 24th of April 2011 08:42:17 PM

04-24-2011

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I am an older administrator who still uses Sendmail. I have about 20 years experience with it and I can solve any Sendmail problem I encounter. It was a nasty learning curve and I really don't want to do that again. Sendmail has had more than its share of problems over the years but now it seems pretty stable. It would be possible to switch to postfix but I don't see any reason to do that. Exchange is not even a possible option as far as I know... it doesn't run on Unix. Postfix is the only alternative I know... are there other MTA's available for Unix?

I have to say we Sendmail users probably should not chide Exchange on its security problems though.... people who live in glass houses shouldn't be throwing stones. Smilie

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SMMAPD(8)						      System Manager's Manual							 SMMAPD(8)

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NAME

       SMMAPD - Sendmail socket map daemon

SYNOPSIS

       smmapd [ -C config-file ] [ -U uses ] [ -T timeout ]
	      [ -D ]

DESCRIPTION

       SMMAPD  is a Sendmail socket map daemon which is used to verify that a Cyrus mailbox exists, that it is postable and it is under quota.	It
       accepts commands on its standard input and responds on its standard output.  It MUST be invoked	by  cyrmaster(8)  with	those  descriptors
       attached to a remote client connection.

       SMMAPD reads its configuration options out of the imapd.conf(5) file unless specified otherwise by -C.

OPTIONS

       -C config-file
	      Read configuration options from config-file.

       -U uses
	      The maximum number of times that the process should be used for new connections before shutting down.  The default is 250.

       -T timeout
	      The number of seconds that the process will wait for a new connection before shutting down.  Note that a value of 0 (zero) will dis-
	      able the timeout.  The default is 60.

       -D     Run external debugger specified in debug_command.

FILES

       /etc/imapd.conf
	      Default configuration file.

       /etc/cyrus.conf
	      Cyrus Master process configuration file.

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