Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!emory!stiatl!pda From: pda@stiatl.UUCP (Paul D. Anderson) Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl Subject: Re: rewriting sendmail in perl Message-ID: <9239@stiatl.UUCP> Date: 7 Mar 90 17:50:00 GMT References: Organization: Sales Technologies Inc., "The Prototype IS the Product..." Lines: 17 vixie@decwrl.dec.com (Paul A Vixie) writes: >>[LWall] Actually, I was thinking about what I'd need to write the new >>rn in perl. I don't want to rewrite sendmail. (Not consciously, anyway. :-) >But *I* do, and Perl is going to be the vehicle. [...] It Can Be Done... After first porting sendmail 5.61 to a crippled System V machine, then endeavoring to make it communicate with Wollongong smtp and Sun sendmail (and have it's processes *really* die when done), I would love to see a sendmail running in Perl. I Will Use It! Please post it! -paul -- -- Paul Anderson * h:404-565-0761 w:404-841-4000 {mathcs.emory,gatech}.edu!stiatl!pda || pda@SalesTech.Com