Re: [nnhlug] MTA Religious War (Was Re: proftp)

[Dan Jenkins]

Paul Lussier wrote:
> In a message dated: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 21:19:27 EST
> "Jeff Macdonald" said:
> >I always thought that if one understood perl code and regular expressions,
> >one should be able to handle sendmail's cf file.
> 
> That's kindof like saying I can read latin and expecting someone to understand
> something written arabic or yiddish or something, isn't it?
> 
> sendmail has been around a lot longer than perl, and though sendmail.cf does
> use regexes heavily, it's a lot worse than any perl code I've ever seen.

Yup. Good analogy. While it looks vaguely like dense Perl, it has no
connection.

Fragment of sendmail.cf which rewrites sender addresses...
I know perl and that's not perl. ;-)

S10
R<@>                    $n                      
R@ <@ $*>               $n                      
R$+                     $: $>50 $1              
R$*                     $: $>94 $1              
S20
R$+ < @ $* >            $: $1

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