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From: smoot@ut-sally.UUCP (Smoot Carl-Mitchell)
Newsgroups: net.mail.headers
Subject: Re: "blaming Unix SendMail"
Message-ID: <2003@ut-sally.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 19-Apr-84 13:30:56 EST
Article-I.D.: ut-sally.2003
Posted: Thu Apr 19 13:30:56 1984
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Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas
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As the local "sendmail hacker" here at UT, I do find the configuration
file syntax to be difficult to understand at times.  Fortunately,
Eric Allman did provide some pretty good template files to get users
started and I greatly appreciated that.  Most of the configuration
files I have modified are based upon one or more of Eric's files.
Without those files I would have spent a great deal more time
writing the configuration files we need.

In defense of sendmail it was designed to operate in a heterogenous
network mail environment and serve as a bridge between user 
communities using  different mail address syntax.  As a first stab
at trying to address the problem, I think Eric did a fine job.
It can be improved.  A more "user friendly" syntax would certainly
be useful and while not an easy job it is not impossible.
-- 
Smoot Carl-Mitchell, CS Dept. University of Texas at Austin
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