sendmail shock. Bibliography?
Chip Salzenberg
chip at tct.com
Tue Apr 9 23:33:47 AEST 1991
According to barnett at crdgw1.ge.com:
>Example: There is one machine who is in domain "XYZ", who insists on
>re-writing their address into the form
>
> user at XYZ.com.user@anything.arpa
>
>I can take that address and write it into the correct *.XYZ.ge.com
>address.
I am slack-jawed with amazement that any postmaster would jump through
hoops to fix an address so badly broken, instead of telling the people
in charge of domain XYZ to get a life. Er, a mailer.
>Can smail3 or Zmailer do these things?
No, Smail 3.1 can't. As for Smail 3.2, it might have a rewriting
facility. But if it does, you can bet that it won't be as hard to
read as the Sendmail "standard".
>Any delivery agent that can solve those sorts of problems will be
>complex. It's not the fault of the MDA, it's because the problem is complex.
True enough. IMHO, Sendmail actually makes things worse, though.
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