Smith Report + sendmail (revisited)

[Jonathan Care]

On Sat, 01 Jul 2000, Richard Clayton wrote:
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> In article <Pine.SOL.4.21.0006301620150.15539-100000@aidan.ncl.ac.uk>,
> Quentin Campbell <Q.G.Campbell@newcastle.ac.uk> writes
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> >I think I now understand why the Smith Report people picked out "sendm=
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> I think they'd heard of it. They are not complete ignoramuses !

Indeed not, but it is most unusual for a strategy, audit and "thought
leadership" consultancy firm to come up with a tactical solution such as =
this.

I would expect some bright spark at the LINX meeting to muse "Of course, =
if you
REALLY wanted to do this, all you would need is the following couple of l=
ines
in the sendmail.m4 file..."

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> >This may surprise a lot of people.
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> Indeed - since many of the larger ISPs seem to be running Exim instead

Off topic, but I am very impressed with the architecture, design,
implementation, and functionality of said package. I have implemented it =
on a
couple of large scale clustered mail solutions, and its performance and
manageability impress me.

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