Re: sendmail.cf

2019-03-04 Thread Alan Clegg
On 2/21/19 1:07 AM, Brielle Bruns wrote: > Can you believe its been _36_ years since the first version of sendmail? > > *holds up a glass of maker's mark* > > To the people who made the internet possible.  Cheers! To those that are bringing back memories, Cheers! ALAN AT NCSUVM, ...!mcnc!gatew

Re: sendmail.cf

2019-03-04 Thread Joe Hamelin
tried never to hand write a sendmail.cf, to be honest - I doubt > > even the sendmail authors recommended being that brave :). And I haven't > > done all that much with dmarc beyond using it. > > > I was 16 when I wrote my first sendmail.cf. Got a rather large check > and

Re: sendmail.cf

2019-02-22 Thread Stephen Satchell
On 2/22/19 11:27 AM, b...@theworld.com wrote: > I don't know the high-water mark for the number of IMPs or more > specifically how many existed on the NCP->TCP flag day but I'm pretty > sure the theoretical maximum was 256 tho no doubt someone had a way to > extend that. But, w/o extensive changes,

Re: sendmail.cf

2019-02-22 Thread bzs
On February 22, 2019 at 10:50 bj...@mork.no (Bjørn Mork) wrote: > b...@theworld.com writes: > > > The predecessor to sendmail was delivermail, 1979, also written by > > Eric Allman. > > > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delivermail > > Damn. Now you made me read RFC801 and wonder why

Re: sendmail.cf

2019-02-22 Thread Bjørn Mork
b...@theworld.com writes: > The predecessor to sendmail was delivermail, 1979, also written by > Eric Allman. > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delivermail Damn. Now you made me read RFC801 and wonder why we didn't have an updated version for the IPv6 transition. Or: Where would the Internet

Re: A Zero Spam Mail System [Feedback Request]...sendmail.cf

2019-02-21 Thread bzs
Boston Univ Computing Center Director: Barry, is it true that all our BITNET email to/from the academic mainframe goes to our TCP/IP sites (mostly computer science) via a gateway at the University Wisconsin? Me: Yes that is correct, I set that up, they're ok with that. BUCCD: So every email is

Re: A Zero Spam Mail System [Feedback Request]...sendmail.cf

2019-02-21 Thread John Curran
On 20 Feb 2019, at 9:16 PM, b...@theworld.com wrote: > On February 20, 2019 at 15:29 br...@2mbit.com (Brielle Bruns) wrote: >> On 2/20/2019 1:22 PM, Matthew Black wrote: >>> Have you ever created a sendmail.cf without using M4? > > I've certainly maintained them, one

Re: A Zero Spam Mail System [Feedback Request]...sendmail.cf

2019-02-21 Thread bzs
On February 21, 2019 at 18:23 feld...@twincreeks.net (Steve Feldman) wrote: > On Feb 20, 2019, at 7:16 PM, b...@theworld.com wrote: > > > > (Berknet was largly written by Eric Schmidt, as in the former Google CEO) > > I'm pretty sure that was Eric Allman, though I had the privilege of bein

Re: A Zero Spam Mail System [Feedback Request]...sendmail.cf

2019-02-21 Thread Steve Feldman
On Feb 20, 2019, at 7:16 PM, b...@theworld.com wrote: > > (Berknet was largly written by Eric Schmidt, as in the former Google CEO) I'm pretty sure that was Eric Allman, though I had the privilege of being a lowly Masters student at Berkeley while both Erics, along with Bill Joy and a host of o

Re: sendmail.cf

2019-02-21 Thread bzs
o hand write a sendmail.cf, to be honest - I doubt > > even the sendmail authors recommended being that brave :). And I haven't > > done all that much with dmarc beyond using it. > > > I was 16 when I wrote my first sendmail.cf. Got a rather large check > and my fi

Re: sendmail.cf

2019-02-20 Thread Brielle Bruns
On 2/20/2019 4:25 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: I've tried never to hand write a sendmail.cf, to be honest - I doubt even the sendmail authors recommended being that brave :). And I haven't done all that much with dmarc beyond using it. I was 16 when I wrote my first sendmail.

Re: A Zero Spam Mail System [Feedback Request]...sendmail.cf

2019-02-20 Thread bzs
On February 20, 2019 at 15:29 br...@2mbit.com (Brielle Bruns) wrote: > On 2/20/2019 1:22 PM, Matthew Black wrote: > > Have you ever created a sendmail.cf without using M4? I've certainly maintained them, one usually started with whatever came with the source distr or maybe you