Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!world!bzs From: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: Assistance with Sendmail.cf Message-ID: Date: 10 Feb 91 05:10:54 GMT References: <25878@adm.brl.mil> <1991Feb9.040903.14554@menudo.uh.edu> Sender: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein) Organization: The World Lines: 26 In-Reply-To: davison@menudo.uh.edu's message of 9 Feb 91 04:09:03 GMT >BTW, anyone know the name of Allman's [sp?] course (& professor) that >did this to us? It was some language design course with the .cf file >looking like the skeleton of a parser... I've been saying it since the first person complained about sendmail's config file... The community has been free to write a replacement, it's not even that daunting since it's just a user level application (no kernel support needed that's peculiar to sendmail.) 99% of what it does is match various address formats and decide which mailer to fork, possibly with some minor string transformations on the address. Even just the config file part could have probably been re-worked, the full source has been available for years to all. Although there have been a few attempts, sendmail remains predominant among Unix internet gateway mailers after all these years, by far. So we have to assume that either it isn't that bad, or no one can think of a better way to do this. -- -Barry Shein Software Tool & Die | bzs@world.std.com | uunet!world!bzs Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 617-739-0202 | Login: 617-739-WRLD