yes, that’s right. today i had the easiest,
least painful experience with
sendmail

of all things. for reasons too obscure to go into, i needed a local
mail server. normally, i avoid
sendmail

like the plague after discovering the pleasures of
postfix

. but local in this case means
os x

, which comes preloaded with
sendmail

.

great. i’ve either got to fiddle with installing
postfix

which will inevitably have a few speed bumps, but i get the
advantage of being able to configure it quickly; or i go with
sendmail

which is already installed, but which will likely come with it’s
own configuration speed bumps.

but a quick search for

“os x sendmail”

turns up the

“one click sendmain enabler”

, which happens to be heartily

recommended

by
jon udell

, which is good enough for me.

1 minute later i had a functioning mail server running.

i hear that

panther will go with postfix

anyway, so maybe i’ll only need to sully my system with
sendmail

for a short time.