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On 25 Apr 2005, Chris Devers wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Apr 2005, Zack Weinberg wrote:
>
>> Programs that *don't* send mail with /usr/lib/sendmail (yeah, yeah,
>> these days /usr/sbin/sendmail) are hateful.
>
> Including, for example, everything that sends mail on Windows?
Oh, yes. I really hate that. If Windows came with a single standard
interface to sending email, like sendmail(1), life would be so much
better, because...
> Or everything on a platform (e.g. OSX) where the program at that
> location, which may or not be Sendmail-TM-brand-sendmail, is by default
> configured not to deliver, because mismanaged mail proxies are evil?
...you could chose to implement this. Alternately, you could do the
typical Microsoft solution of reacting to a virus making five hundred
queries of the address book by asking "Do you want to allow this" five
hundred times, in a row, with no way to avoid answering each one.[1]
> And how about thosee non-Sendmail-TM-brand-sendmails, e.g. the ones set
> up by Postfix et al. Does the Hate cover those as well?
In case you didn't notice, Postfix and almost all the other non-sendmail
brand sendmail systems provide sendmail(1) in the right location.
This is because Unix does have a standard way of sending mail. The
proliferation of writing sendmail(1) yourself, incorporate in your code,
but badly is something I lay at the feet of Windows.
Thanks of a system where that was the *best* way to achieve the result,
you bastards.
Daniel
Footnotes:
[1] Well, actually, my clients of the time usually powered off the
machine, since the soft power button still worked.
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