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