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Re: Plausibility of sendmail?


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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