On Mon, 24 Nov 1997, Pete Ashdown wrote:
> Tom said once upon a time:
>
> >On Mon, 24 Nov 1997, Pete Ashdown wrote:
> >
> >> Is there some reason that "exim -qRdomain.com" does not work in the same
> >> manner that sendmail does? We need this command on sendmail, and it is
> >> preventing one of my machines from switching to Exim.
> >
> > Just use "-R" instead. I don't see why Exim has mimic every cl
> >parameter that Sendmail has, especially since Sendmail's is still
> >changing.
>
> How about this reason. You have 100+ clients using the traditional method
> and switching to Exim will break every one of them.
Let's see, the manpage says, "Sendmail is not intended to be used as a
user interface routine". I would never require "clients" use direct
access to sendmail, and be actively discouraged from doing so.
It is also pretty easy to convert "sendmail -qR$1" to "exim -R$1".
Tom
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