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Article #262Re: "blaming Unix SendMail"
From: Smoot Carl-Mitchell
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 1984 18:30
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 1984 18:30
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As the local "sendmail hacker" here at UT, I do find the configuration
file syntax to be difficult to understand at times. Fortunately,
Eric Allman did provide some pretty good template files to get users
started and I greatly appreciated that. Most of the configuration
files I have modified are based upon one or more of Eric's files.
Without those files I would have spent a great deal more time
writing the configuration files we need.
In defense of sendmail it was designed to operate in a heterogenous
network mail environment and serve as a bridge between user
communities using different mail address syntax. As a first stab
at trying to address the problem, I think Eric did a fine job.
It can be improved. A more "user friendly" syntax would certainly
be useful and while not an easy job it is not impossible.
--
Smoot Carl-Mitchell, CS Dept. University of Texas at Austin
{seismo, ctvax, ihnp4}!ut-sally!smoot, smoot@ut-sally.{ARPA, UUCP}
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ut-sally.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!harpo!seismo!ut-sally!smoot From: smoot@ut-sally.UUCP (Smoot Carl-Mitchell) Newsgroups: net.mail.headers Subject: Re: "blaming Unix SendMail" Message-ID: <2003@ut-sally.UUCP> Date: Thu, 19-Apr-84 13:30:56 EST Article-I.D.: ut-sally.2003 Posted: Thu Apr 19 13:30:56 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 20-Apr-84 02:17:14 EST References: <474@hou3c.UUCP> Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas Lines: 17