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Re: sendmail.cf


From: bzs () theworld com
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2019 21:07:42 -0500


The predecessor to sendmail was delivermail, 1979, also written by
Eric Allman.

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delivermail

On February 20, 2019 at 23:07 bruns () 2mbit com (Brielle Bruns) wrote:
On 2/20/2019 4:25 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
I've tried never to hand write a sendmail.cf, to be honest - I doubt 
even the sendmail authors recommended being that brave :). And I haven't 
done all that much with dmarc beyond using it.


I was 16 when I wrote my first sendmail.cf.  Got a rather large check 
and my first employment ever due to that config file.

My brain hurts thinking about that.

Can you believe its been _36_ years since the first version of sendmail?

*holds up a glass of maker's mark*

To the people who made the internet possible.  Cheers!


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