>
> 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..."
>
        All of these things could be done in simpler ways.  All
        decent software has options and some tailoring possibilities.
        Something like sendmail.cf is NOT the way to do it.
 
> 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