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SubjectRe: Sendmail 8.9.0 claims a Linux kernel bug
FromBen Gertzfield <>
Date25 Jun 1998 20:55:49 -0700
>>>>> "H" == H Peter Anvin <hpa@transmeta.com> writes:

    Alan> Fix sendmail, better yet get a better mail daemon

    Ben> Wish I could. Trust me, I wish I could. :) But this is an ISP
    Ben> with an ancient hand-crafted sendmail.cf that nobody actually
    Ben> knows how it works, and upgrading to zmailer or qmail would
    Ben> entail someone figuring out exactly what every single line in
    Ben> the old sendmail.cf does. *shudder*

    H> Why?  Why not simply decide what you need and re-implement from
    H> scratch?  I'm sure that'd you get rid of a lot of cruft that
    H> way...

I tried that once -- nobody could decide exactly what we needed,
and so I implemented what I thought was what we needed and
got 400 angry customers jumping down my back because CGI program
A was no longer forwarding to user B and so on and so forth.

It's scary when things aren't done right in the first place.

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