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From: barnett@grymoire.crd.ge.com (Bruce Barnett)
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Subject: Re: sendmail shock.  Bibliography?
Message-ID: <BARNETT.91Apr3153827@grymoire.crd.ge.com>
Date: 3 Apr 91 20:38:27 GMT
References: <1991Apr1.173622.12281@appmag.com>
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In-reply-to: gary@sci34hub.sci.com's message of 2 Apr 91 18:02:15 GMT

In article <1991Apr2.180215.1356@sci34hub.sci.com> gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston) writes:
>   Forget it. Unless you grew up with sendmail, you'll probably never
>   figure it out. 

>   Get smail3 off uunet, and convert to that. Understandable, works well,
>   and has readable config files.

Or you can get Ease 3.1 - which is a higher level language for
sendmail files. Ease does not replace sendmail. You convert
sendmail.cf files into Ease, edit them (with real variable names,
keywords, preprocessor support, etc.) Then convert them back into
sendmail.

Instead of 
---
R$*<@$*$=m>$*		$1<@$2LOCAL>$4			convert local domain
R$-!$+			$@$>6$2<@$1.uucp>		uucphost!user
---
You see
---
	if ( zero_or_more <@ zero_or_more  any_in_mydomainname > zero_or_more )	/* convert local domain */
		retry ($1<@$2"LOCAL">$4);
	if ( exactly_one ! one_or_more )	/* uucphost!user */
		return (RULESET_6 ($2<@$1."uucp">));
---
So you see, you can't knock sendmail anymore because of the syntax,
you have to pick a better reason. :-)

Ease 3.1 is available from the alt.sources archives.
Soon to be released to comp.sources

If you REALLY need it, send me mail.
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Bruce G. Barnett	barnett@crdgw1.ge.com	uunet!crdgw1!barnett