On Tue, Mar 17, 1998 at 09:01:57AM -0800, John Henders wrote:
>Well considering the anti-spam m4 macros don't work on sendmail versions
>before about 8.4 or 8.6 it looks like sendmail also needs C hooks to
>expand it's functionality as well.
Exim likely would have required extensions to combat spam, if it too
had been written before spam was a problem ...
> About the only thing sendmail has going for it is job security.
>
Now this I disagree with. sendmail.cf may be obtuse, but you can
eventually do just about anything with it. Sendmail rocks for
rules-based or database-driven address translation, for example. I
can use it to translate the envelope sender, recipient, or addresses
in any of the headers, and I can specify, essentially, per recipient,
when to do any of this. Not something most people need to do, but
when you do, Sendmail's the only tool that fits the bill.
Now, if they could just clean up the queue management ...
-- "The box said Windows 95, Windows NT 4.0, or better .. so I installed Linux."
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