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Re: A Zero Spam Mail System [Feedback Request]...sendmail.cf
From: bzs () theworld com
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2019 22:16:31 -0500
On February 20, 2019 at 15:29 bruns () 2mbit com (Brielle Bruns) wrote:
On 2/20/2019 1:22 PM, Matthew Black wrote:Have you ever created a sendmail.cf without using M4?
I've certainly maintained them, one usually started with whatever came with the source distr or maybe you'd get someone to share something with you to bang on. One reason sendmail.cf's seem so complicated is because sendmail was designed to gateway and route between very different email systems. For example UUCP where email addresses looked like uunet!bu!bzs and berknet (UCB) where it looked like host:user (Berknet was largly written by Eric Schmidt, as in the former Google CEO), and chaosnet (MIT), DECNET, IBM/SNA, BITNET, etc. The "internet" really meant to many that we were going to tie all those together at least somewhat and it was fairly successful for email. I know I regularly used and admin'd decnet, bitnet, uucp, as well as the usual ARPA stuff. P.S. ISTR that someone wrote an adventure ("Collosal Cave") type game as a sendmail config, it may have even produced a paper but I can't find it (Usenix?) -- -Barry Shein Software Tool & Die | bzs () TheWorld com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: +1 617-STD-WRLD | 800-THE-WRLD The World: Since 1989 | A Public Information Utility | *oo*
Current thread:
- RE: A Zero Spam Mail System [Feedback Request], (continued)
- RE: A Zero Spam Mail System [Feedback Request] Matthew Black (Feb 20)
- Re: A Zero Spam Mail System [Feedback Request] Dave Crocker (Feb 20)
- RE: A Zero Spam Mail System [Feedback Request] bzs (Feb 20)
- Re: A Zero Spam Mail System [Feedback Request] Brielle Bruns (Feb 20)
- Re: A Zero Spam Mail System [Feedback Request] Suresh Ramasubramanian (Feb 20)
- Re: sendmail.cf Brielle Bruns (Feb 20)
- Re: sendmail.cf bzs (Feb 21)
- Re: sendmail.cf Bjørn Mork (Feb 22)
- Re: sendmail.cf bzs (Feb 22)
- Re: sendmail.cf Stephen Satchell (Feb 22)
- RE: A Zero Spam Mail System [Feedback Request] Matthew Black (Feb 20)
- Re: A Zero Spam Mail System [Feedback Request]...sendmail.cf bzs (Feb 20)
- Re: A Zero Spam Mail System [Feedback Request]...sendmail.cf Steve Feldman (Feb 21)
- Re: A Zero Spam Mail System [Feedback Request]...sendmail.cf bzs (Feb 21)
- Re: A Zero Spam Mail System [Feedback Request]...sendmail.cf John Curran (Feb 21)
- Re: A Zero Spam Mail System [Feedback Request]...sendmail.cf bzs (Feb 21)
- Re: A Zero Spam Mail System [Feedback Request] Carsten Bormann (Feb 20)
- Re: A Zero Spam Mail System [Feedback Request] Brett Watson (Feb 21)
- Re: A Zero Spam Mail System [Feedback Request] Brett Watson (Feb 21)