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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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