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Apple should really fix this
I've gone to Apple's Mac OS X feedback page with this one, and I hope many others will, too. They should really have provided a safe and sane way, for example, a checkbox in the Sharing prefs pane, to turn sendmail on and off. It is ridiculous to include this software without providing a reasonable way to use it, and it would be even more ridiculous not to include sendmail with the system at all. Yes, it is Mac OS, but it is also Unix! A lot of Unix and Linux people are using Mac OS X now and it makes no sense to ship what amounts to a broken Unix distribution. It is unreasonable to have to hack netinfo and rebuild sendmail.cf to get the *%@# thing working. Never had such problems with other Unix or Linux distros.
They did-it's called OS X Server
That's why you pay a premium for OS X server. Nice GUI tools to control those nasssty text files, yes preciousss. I mean really, X client CAN be used as a server, but that's not its target market. It's a client. How many soccer moms are going to want to run sendmail? Personally, I think having the checkbox there in client would be a disaster. You'd have morons the world 'round checking the box and setting up stupid things like open relays without a clue as to what they were doing-just like all the DeadRat admins with default wide open boxes. Yes, you can still have morons doing this in X Server, but the higher cost of entry will go a long ways towards thinning the herd. As far as client checkboxes go, web and file sharing make sense, ssh is borderline but appreciated by power users, ftp is nuts but some folks insist on it. But sendmail? A solution in search of a problem.
They did-it's called OS X Server
Last time I checked (10.1.5), there is no GUI in OS X server for sendmail... the GUI is for Apple's own AppleMailServer... sendmail config is still manual. Might have change in 10.2, but doubt it. |
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