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- From: rogers@cirdan.wr.tek.com (Roger Southwick)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
- Subject: Perl version of SMTP (RFC 821) & RFC 822?
- Message-ID: <11192@wrgate.wr.tek.com>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 18:24:19 GMT
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- Organization: Tektronix, Inc.
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- Hi gang. I got looking at our sendmail.cf file the other day, and
- realized how unnecessarily cryptic sendmail.cf files are... I mean it's
- just pattern matching and replacement, right?
-
- I thought to myself, "Self.... wouldn't this be easier to understand
- and modify in Perl?" And hence the thought. I mean I've seen/written
- Perl code to be a network daemon/client (ala sendmail), and the other
- rules shouldn't be that hard....
-
- So, a couple of queries....
-
- 1) Has anyone done this? If so, how well did it work... can you post
- the code (make it available for anon-ftp)?
-
- 2) If no one has done this, why not? Am I missing something? Is it
- TOO big of a problem? People just lazy?
-
- I don't plan on writing it due to schedule restraints, but this
- enquiring (and warped) mind needs to know....
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-