27 Nov
2013
27 Nov
'13
6:06 a.m.
Amen - I've always said that sendmail became what it was because it was the
SMTPD that went out in 4.2 and followings. If the original BBN code had
been left alone, since most people did not have the issues Berkeley did,
they would never have bothered with sendmail.cf. But because it was there
and >>conceptually<< you could do all sort of stuff with it, people tried.
We'll never know.
I was a fan of MMDF for years and later qmail - but I switch ccc.com to
google when the first offered it small folks like me 8-10 years ago and I
never looked back.
Clem
On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 5:13 PM, Larry McVoy <lm(a)bitmover.com> wrote:
On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 04:57:40PM -0500, Clem Cole
wrote:
He and I talked about about it once, I had always
wished he had left the
different "connector" programs alone and just let sendmail be a header
rewriting system.
+1
I get why he did what he did but holy mother of god is maintaining
sendmail.cf
a black art. We've switched to postfix.
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