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From: chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: rewriting sendmail in perl
Message-ID: <25F58D30.148B@tct.uucp>
Date: 7 Mar 90 22:37:36 GMT
References: <VIXIE.90Mar5231827@vixmax.pa.dec.com>
Organization: ComDev/TCT, Sarasota, FL
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According to vixie@decwrl.dec.com (Paul A Vixie):
>[LWall]
> I don't want to rewrite sendmail.  (Not consciously, anyway.  :-)
>
>But *I* do, and Perl is going to be the vehicle.

I suggest that anyone who wants to hack on mail with Perl use Deliver
version 2.0 patch 9 as a start.  It understands "#!/bin/perl" in the
shell-scripts-aka-delivery-files used to control mail delivery.

And besides, I wrote it.  :-)
-- 
Chip Salzenberg at ComDev/TCT   <chip%tct@ateng.com>, <uunet!ateng!tct!chip>
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