On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 05:52:10PM -0500, Damian Gerow wrote: > I would suggest, unfortunately, that the OP move away from Sendmail. > Though I haven't seen any significant security vulnerabilities from it > lately, its configuration file is archaic and difficult to understand. > There are many other drop-in replacements that exist (exim, postfix), > a number of replacements that require a bit of extra work (qmail), and > other SMTP clients-that-run-as-daemons (ssmtp), all as viable > alternatives that will be easier to maintain. Sendmail isn't all that hard to maintain if you stick to managing the sendmail.mc file and stay away from trying to hand-edit the sendmail.cf. That said, unless you've got a need for all of Sendmail's features, Postfix might be a better choice. It's not a 'drop-in' replacement for Sendmail, but it's definitely easier for a novice system administrator to configure. I'm personally not too impressed with Exim or qmail. Qmail in particular needs a LOT of extra work to make it function well. I'd recommend staying away from either of those. Cheers, Dave