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February 24 Meeting of BBLISA
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Cartier)
Tue Feb 16 16:23:49 1993
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 93 15:36:11 EST
From: dsc@epoch.com (David Cartier)
To: bblisa@inset.com
Cc: dsc@epoch.com
ANNOUNCEMENT
A FEBRUARY MEETING OF BBLISA
What: I just told you.
When: Feb 24, 1992 @7:00PM
Where: Room 140, Building 51, 70 Memorial Drive
How: Medium Rare
Why: Why not!?
Description: See Below
Doug Alan of MIT will present the long awaited (Well, since November
anyhow) talk on sendmail. The following is a description of the talk.
dsc
>
> AN INTRODUCTION TO SENDMAIL.CF
>
>
> "sendmail.cf", the configuration file for sendmail has gotten a bad
> reputation over the years. Although it provides a great deal of
> flexibility in the configuration of mail routing and mail header
> rewriting -- the configuration language is actually a tiny programming
> language -- many system administrators find sendmail.cf files to be
> arcane and indecipherable. Modifications to a sendmail.cf file often
> seem to have ramifications that are unpredictable. It is my belief
> that although sendmail.cf is perhaps far from the optimal
> configuration language, it is not a completely black art. Most of
> sendmail.cf's reputation stems from a preponderance of badly
> structured sendmail.cf files and a few serious gaps in the sendmail
> documentation.
>
> My talk will be a tutorial of the tiny sendmail.cf programming
> language. For illustration we will look at a sendmail.cf that I wrote
> from scratch with the design goal of making it as small and clean as
> possible. This sendmail.cf has been in use at a few sites at MIT for
> four years now without problem. It should work with little or no
> modification or configuration on any machine that is on the Internet,
> has Domain Name Service, and deals with UUCP mail by sending it to a
> forwarding host on the Internet. Its limitations are that it requires
> DNS and doesn't do UUCP (except by delegating the UUCP
> responsibilities to someone else).
David Cartier, UNIX System Administrator * dsc@epoch.com
Epoch Systems, Inc. * 508-836-4711 X373 (VOICE)
8 Technology Drive, Westborough, MA. 01581 * 508-836-4884 (FAX)
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