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[Steven Champeon <schampeo AT hesketh.com>]

on Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 04:19:30PM -0400, Michael Winslow Czeiszperger wrote:
> 
> On Tuesday, October 14, 2003, at 04:10  PM, Steven Champeon wrote:
> >Same way you do anywhere else. But you may want to take a few months
> >to come up to speed on sendmail before you go putting it on the Net;
> >it's one of the most obtuse and cranky pieces of software ever written.
> 
> I once interviewed at a minor UNIX vendor, but they wouldn't give me  
> any information about the position other than it was on the OS team.  
> Sitting in the manager's office I noticed a book on sendmail, and  
> during the course of the conversation issued the above opinion. As it  
> turned out they job was for someone to maintain sendmail :-)

Heh. Well, that explains why certain minor Unix vendors have had such a
problem with sendmail all these years ;) Me, I just let sendmail.org
maintain it. But I have an, um, substantially modified sendmail.cf now,
after some six months of hacking it up to reject various known spam
signatures. I find it amusing that sendmail rulesets often resemble the
sort of line noise that spammers use to work around filters...

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