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The Lounge What is on Your Mind? Why older administrators prefer sendmail ? Post 302519207 by bakunin on Tuesday 3rd of May 2011 10:36:47 AM

05-03-2011

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I think Coronas opinion has some truth to it and I'd like to expand on that:

The UNIX philosophy is indeed to have every tool do one thing and be good at it. To quote from my favourite RFC (1925):

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(5) It is always possible to aglutenate multiple separate problems into a single complex interdependent solution. In most cases this is a bad idea.

It might be good to have the calendar and the mail integrated, but the downside is that Exchange can't be brought to work as a real MTA. There are so many inaccuracies in the implementation that the only client it really works with is Outlook. I don't think that anybody in his own mind wants to use Outlook as a mail client. Outlook will outright refuse to show you the email address of a local recipient (it will - whatever you do - change "john.doe@yourcompany.com" to "Doe, John"), it cannot be brought to format replies correctly, it will send mails HTML- (or even worse) formatted instead of in ASCII even if you configure it not to do so, and so on and so on.

In my current project i am forced to use Outlook 2007 (means extra punishment: this damn "Fluent" GUI can't be deactivated and the look and feel of the OS and the application is forced to be inconsistent) and after 2 days trying to configure this thing to work like a mail client is supposed to work i simply gave up, write my mails with vi and a bunch of vi macros and copy/paste the results to/from the Outlook window. Sorry, but this is not "user friendly", this is inacceptable.

The LDAP implementation is also quite buggy: we set up OpenLDAP as general authorization tool across the the "open systems" (that means AIX, a few HP-Ux- and SunOS-boxes and [CentOS-]Linux here) and my colleague wanted to connect the Exchange Server too: no chance, somehow it's LDAP, but not quite - this is, sad to say, often the case with MS products. They claim to implement a standard but implement it in a way that only their own products understand it.

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

NAME

       mailstats - display mail statistics

SYNOPSIS

       mailstats [-c] [-o] [-p] [-P] [-C cffile] [-f stfile]

DESCRIPTION

       The mailstats utility displays the current mail statistics.

       First,  the  time  at which statistics started being kept is displayed, in the format specified by ctime(3).  Then, the statistics for each
       mailer are displayed on a single line, each with the following white space separated fields:

	      M 	  The mailer number.
	      msgsfr	  Number of messages from the mailer.
	      bytes_from  Kbytes from the mailer.
	      msgsto	  Number of messages to the mailer.
	      bytes_to	  Kbytes to the mailer.
	      msgsrej	  Number of messages rejected.
	      msgsdis	  Number of messages discarded.
	      msgsqur	  Number of messages quarantined.
	      Mailer	  The name of the mailer.

       After this display, a line totaling the values for all of the mailers is displayed (preceded with a ``T''),  separated  from  the  previous
       information by a line containing only equals (``='') characters.  Another line preceded with a ``C'' lists the number of TCP connections.

       The options are as follows:

       -C     Read the specified file instead of the default sendmail configuration file.

       -c     Try to use submit.cf instead of the default sendmail configuration file.

       -f     Read the specified statistics file instead of the statistics file specified in the sendmail configuration file.

       -P     Output information in program-readable mode without clearing statistics.

       -p     Output information in program-readable mode and clear statistics.

       -o     Don't display the name of the mailer in the output.

       The mailstats utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.

FILES

       /etc/mail/sendmail.cf	The default sendmail configuration file.
       /var/lib/sendmail/statistics
				The default sendmail statistics file.
       /etc/mail/statistics	The symbolic link to the statistics file.

SEE ALSO

       mailq(1), sendmail(8)

							   $Date: 2002/06/27 22:47:29 $ 					      MAILSTATS(8)