[OT] Home Email Server? The OLD days...

[Ric Moore]

On Thu, 2009-03-12 at 15:09 +0800, Christopher Chan wrote:
> Ric Moore wrote:
> > On Wed, 2009-03-11 at 11:33 +0800, Christopher Chan wrote:
> >   
> >>> Ack!  Sendmail is evil...
> >>>   
> >>>       
> >> rulesets rule!
> >>
> >> /me pretending to be a sendmail bigot
> >>     
> >
> > I took a sendmail class for 4 days at Redhat, about 7 years ago. 
> >
> > Guess how much I remember? 
> >
> > Answer: Very little. :) Ric
> >
> >   
> Ha!
> 
> I actually supported a farm of sendmails for about a year until I 
> replaced them with postfix when I worked at an email service provider.
> 
> I even have a cdb patch for sendmail based on an existing inhouse mysql 
> patch that I have updated for 8.14.x on sourceforge.
> 
> Now I too remember squat.
> 
> I did not know Redhat had sendmail classes. I also don't remember seeing 
> anything like sendmail needed for RHCA...them classes are just for your 
> own benefit?

I forget the name of the feller in North Carolina that taught the class.
He knew sendmail and inside and out and did sendmail consulting as part
of his services. Darn sharp guy. Some of us in-house took the course and
I'm guessing that he had some of his clients there as well. Red Hat used
to have outside vendors there all the time, back in Bob Young's days. I
was in the old Installation Support group and they encouraged us to
participate in any of the classes that were held in their offices in the
Research Triangle Park. (RTP) 

At any rate, the final exam was to set up sendmail to forward to the
next guy's workstation and his sent it to the next, etc, until it
returned back to the instructors machine. Whoever botched up their
configuration, stopping the forward process, failed. Guess who botched
up? I felt miserable as I thought I understood it. I guess I either
didn't or made a typo. Thank the Lord we didn't have to actually use
sendmail in the regular support scheme of things. We had guys that
billed the large dollars to do that. Back in those days just figuring
out what IRQ did what and when kept us busy. The earlier days of Linux
(1996-98) were a real trial, just getting sound and network cards to
work. <grins> Ric

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