Plausibility of sendmail?
Andrew DeFaria
Andrew@DeFaria.com
Mon Feb 2 16:40:00 GMT 2004
Brian.Kelly@Empireblue.com wrote:
> Seems to me you have not worked for many Fortune 500 size
> organizations - where almost ALL your hardware and software purchasing
> decisions are made by folks who *PRIDE* themselves on their *LACK* of
> technical expertise - as if such were somehow evidence of their
> inability to *MANAGE*. In fact, being a technical guru can often be
> career death in such places as the *can't do's* endlessly convince
> themselves that the *can do's* can't "manage people". Which begs the
> question - "WHAT DOES CHOOSING HARDWARE HAVE TO DO WITH *MANAGING
> PEOPLE*????????" But they do it anyway. And of course when such
> *beings* make such decisions, they do so with assumptions like "all
> open source is BAD" (while their web servers are running Apache), and
> the CHEAPEST thing is *GOOD* - Intel rather than Sun or HP. Oh, but we
> can't run Linux because that's *bad* *unsupported* open source!!
>
> Then - their job done, and budget shot, they give a nearly impossible
> task to their *inferior guru's* that really should only be done in a
> Unix enviroment - enter CYGWIN. Of course it's *bad* open source, but
> now the *manager* has promised his/her management that this new
> functionality would be ready by week's end - without consulting the
> guru's first. So cygwin is agreed to as a *temporary* solution (with
> the understanding that temporary in such organizations could be two
> decades instead of three).
>
> This is how a need for something like sendmail on cygwin could
> conceivably come about - happens ALL the time.
If they are so clueless as you suggest then one has to wonder why you
tell them that you're running a Linux OS and using sendmail?!?
Otherwise simply get exim and use it. Works fine.
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