On Tue, 29 Mar 1994 15:49:12 -0600 you said:
>        IMHO any system which includes a file like
>        sendmail.cf which people can tinker with
>        is severely under-designed.  Mail systems
>        should not be tailored.  Mail systems
>        should have simple addresses and tailoring
>        should be unnecessary.
Well, yeah.  And the Easter Bunny should bring me eggs this coming weekend.
 
Unfortunately, some of us run production systems that move 100,000 or more
pieces of e-mail a day.  And we need to be able to deal with all the vagarities
of existent mail systems.  Personally, I consider it *good* that sendmail
allows a .cf file which allows me to specify "Deal this way with SMTP,
and this way with Decnet, and this way with UUCP, and this way with Bitnet,
and do *this* really crufty hack to deal with our local homegrown Single
System Image distributed e-mail system, and do this *other* hack to make
e-mail to [log in to unmask] work, no matter where they REALLY get their mail,
and..."
 
And yes, we actually have a production machine here that does all that.
And we did it all in the sendmail.cf file.
 
                                  Valdis Kletnieks
                                  Computer Systems Engineer
                                  Virginia Polytechnic Institute