> > 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